{"product_id":"tonight-im-someone-else-paperback","title":"Tonight I'm Someone Else - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChelsea Hodson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I had a real romance with this book.\" --Miranda July\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, \"bracingly good...refreshing and welcome,\" that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom graffiti gangs and \u003ci\u003eGrand Theft Auto\u003c\/i\u003e to sugar daddies, Schopenhauer, and a deadly game of Russian roulette, in these essays, Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and the proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, our intimacy, and our own bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking, linking, and sharing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStarting with Hodson's own work experience, which ranges from the mundane to the bizarre--including modeling and working on a NASA Mars mission-- Hodson expands outward, looking at the ways in which the human will submits, whether in the marketplace or in a relationship. Both tender and jarring, this collection is relevant to anyone who's ever searched for what the self is worth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHodson's accumulation within each piece is purposeful, and her prose vivid, clear, and sometimes even shocking, as she explores the wonderful and strange forms of desire. \u003ci\u003eTonight I'm Someone Else\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh, poetic debut from an exciting emerging voice, in which Hodson asks, \"How much can a body endure?\" And the resounding answer: \"Almost everything.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChelsea Hodson\u003c\/b\u003e earned her MFA at Bennington College and was a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrieze Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lifted Brow\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. She teaches at the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Sezze Romano, Italy, and lives in Brooklyn, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 05, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761016930592,"sku":"9781250170194","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a0ef84df09984209a63ba26571f53b7f.webp?v=1780197257","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/tonight-im-someone-else-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}