A Horse at Night, Amina Cain
A Horse at Night, Amina Cain
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A Horse at Night
On Writing

Author: Amina Cain

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon

Unabridged: 2 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/11/2022

Synopsis

Amina Cain's unique wandering sensibility, her attention to the small and the surprising, finds a profound new expression in her first nonfiction book, a sustained meditation on writers and their work. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors—including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee Gladman, and Virginia Woolf—and topics as timely and various as female friendships, zazen meditation, neighborhood coyotes, landscape painting, book titles, and the politics of excess. A Horse at Night: On Writing is an intimate reckoning with the contemporary moment, and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Woolf's A Room of One's Own or Gass's On Being Blue, books that are virtuosic arguments for—and beautiful demonstrations of—the essential unity of writing and life.

About Amina Cain

Amina Cain is the author of two collections of short fiction, Creature and I Go to Some Hollow. Her essays and short stories have appeared in n+1, the Paris Review Daily, BOMB, Full Stop, Vice, the Believer Logger, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and is a contributing editor at BOMB.

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on June 29, 2024

‘I write to see what is inside my mind,’ author Amina Cain tells us in her non-fiction work A Horse at Night: On Writing’, adding that ‘for me, it is often far better, healthier, than recording what I know is already there.’ This exquisitely gorgeous and insightful little volume is her ‘diary of fic......more

Goodreads review by Peter on November 01, 2022

The danger with books about books is that you are filled with the insatiable urge to read more books. I don’t know if this book would be enjoyable to those who aren’t devouring books constantly, but for those that do, A Horse at Night is candy.......more

Goodreads review by Lark on June 27, 2024

This was a deeply disorienting read for me. You have to understand. When Indelicacy came out close to the same time as my novel Chouette and when i read it i felt an instantaneous connection with the language. I felt Amina Cain must write very similarly to the way I write, and must read like I read,......more

Goodreads review by Vincent on July 16, 2022

“I am thinking now of a particular time in my life, in Chicago, when I began to meet the people who would become some of the best friends I had ever known. With a few, we announced how much we liked each other before we had spent much time together. This made me nervous. What if when we did spend ti......more

Goodreads review by makayla on January 10, 2023

don’t read this during a book buying ban✍🏻......more

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