{"product_id":"is-there-god-after-prince-dispatches-from-an-age-of-last-things-paperback","title":"Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things - 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\u003ePeter Coviello\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is a book about loving things--books, songs, people--in the shadow of a felt, looming disaster. Through lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching essays, Peter Coviello considers pieces of culture across a fantastic range, setting them inside the vivid scenes of friendship, dispute, romance, talk, and loss, where they enter our lives. Alongside him, we reencounter movies like\u003ci\u003e The Shining\u003c\/i\u003e, shows like\u003ci\u003e The Sopranos\u003c\/i\u003e; videos; poems; novels by Sam Lipsyte, Sally Rooney, and Paula Fox; as well as songs by Joni Mitchell, Gladys Knight, Steely Dan, Pavement, and the much-mourned saint of Minneapolis, Prince. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Navigating an overwhelming feeling that Coviello calls \"endstrickenness,\" he asks what it means to love things in calamitous times, when so much seems to be shambling toward collapse. Balancing comedy and anger, exhilaration and sorrow, Coviello illuminates the strange ways the things we cherish help us to hold on to life and to its turbulent joys. \u003ci\u003eIs There God after Prince? \u003c\/i\u003eshows us what twenty-first-century criticism can be, and how it might speak to us, in a time of ruin, in an age of \"Last Things.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Coviello\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five previous books, including \u003ci\u003eTomorrow's Parties\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for a 2013 Lambda Award in LGBT Studies;\u003ci\u003e Long Players\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir selected as one of\u003ci\u003e Artforum\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Books of 2018; and\u003ci\u003e Make Yourselves Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press. His essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Review, Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaritan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. He is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \u003cbr\u003e\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 0.39 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52006373261613,"sku":"9780226828084","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/xelBcM_O669780226828084.webp?v=1776797349","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/is-there-god-after-prince-dispatches-from-an-age-of-last-things-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}