{"product_id":"all-things-are-too-small-essays-in-praise-of-excess-paperback","title":"All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBecca Rothfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her debut essay collection, \"brilliant and stylish\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture that is flattened and sanitized, purged of ugliness, excess, and provocation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur embrace of minimalism has left us spiritually impoverished. We see it in our homes, where we bring in Marie Kondo to rid them of their idiosyncrasies and darknesses. We take up mindfulness to do the same thing to our heads, emptying them of the musings, thoughts, and obsessions that make us who we are. In the bedroom, a new wave of puritanism has drained sex of its unpredictability and therefore true eroticism. In our fictions, the quest for balance has given us protagonists who aspire only to excise their appetites. We have flipped our values, Rothfeld argues: while the gap between rich and poor yawns hideously wide, we strive to compensate with egalitarianism in art, erotics, and taste, where it does not belong and where it quashes wild experiments and exuberance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLush, provocative, and bitingly funny, \u003ci\u003eAll Things Are Too Small\u003c\/i\u003e is a subversive soul cry to restore imbalance, obsession, gluttony, and ravishment to all domains of our lives.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecca Rothfeld is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing and the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism. She is the non-fiction book critic for the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, an editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Point\u003c\/i\u003e, a contributing editor at the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand a PhD candidate (on long hiatus) at Harvard. She has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBaffler\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. She lives with her two dogs and husband in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984016703789,"sku":"9781250849946","price":20.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/JnL0JDc7mz9781250849946.webp?v=1776081407","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/all-things-are-too-small-essays-in-praise-of-excess-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}