Literary Nonfiction.
Lidia Yuknavitch.
My faith in what writing can be has been restored.
I\'m swooning.
Wayne Koestenbaum The most perfect use of fragmentation, myth, language, fairytale, and terrible beauty that I have ever seen in my life.
Her intellectually magnanimous book\'s position on the threshold between recognizable \'literature\' and some other vanguard form of performance/utterance made me feel happy and stimulated and dizzy (in a rapturous way) while I was reading it.
With head-long, reckless, improvisatory gestures, Lily Hoang prompts us to rethink what literature today can dare to aspire to.
It seems completely contemporary (by which I mean that it is unlike anything I\'ve read and that it makes me want to change my own writerly procedures).
Maggie Nelson A Bestiary is a work of great subtlety, precision, intelligence, daring, and emotive keenness.
Lily Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake.
This book would be impressive enough as a collection of finely-forged fragments, but as it weaves itself into an even more impressive whole, my hat came off.
Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, as in Lily Hoang\'s A BESTIARY.
Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum.
Essays.
Literary Nonfiction
