The Word Pretty Elisa Gabbert by Elisa Gabbert 9781939568298, 1939568293 instant download after payment.

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“‘The Word Pretty’ by Elisa Gabbert blends depth and diversion while it explores life as both a purposeful and a serendipitous reader.”

— NYT Book Review

“Gabbert’s book acquires density and heft through its strategy of accumulation, creating a rich work of literary reflection”

— LA Review of Books

“‘The Word Pretty’ is so smart it hurts”

— Chicago Review of Books

“Gabbert is a critic and literary essayist for our post-everything times. She writes with focused yet relaxed intimacy about all aspects of the ‘writing trade,’ and her eye for detail and nuance is evident from the first page. This is one of those books where you tell yourself you will take a break soon, but then don’t.”

— Sven Birkerts (Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age)

“I feel lucky to be alive and writing at the same time as Elisa Gabbert. Her prose is as tough and lucid as Sontag, but her concerns are lonely pleasures—taking notes, crying, dreaming, and lots of reading—familiar mysteries, and our quiet, hidden human interiors. Her criticism is utterly precise, but she explodes minutiae into a universe, showing the execution of punctuation and paragraphs for what they are: movements of the human mind. She writes about language and cognition so intimately that at times I got the impression that she was showing me my own brain.”

— Alice Bolin (Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsessi