Too Much and Not the Mood
Book description
Named a best book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Slate, NYLON and The Globe and Mail (Canada)
From Durga Chew-Bose, “one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics” (Nylon), comes "a warmly considered meld of criticism and memoir" (New Yorker), a lyrical and piercingly insightful debut collection of…
Why read it?
1 author picked Too Much and Not the Mood as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In the rhapsodic, 90-page first essay, Heart Museum of Chew-Bose’s collection, she gushes in the most eloquent way possible about simply…being alive.
This book is a trojan horse, considering topics like race, identity, and creativity without branding itself as such. Instead, Chew-Bose seeks to render her object—emotions—in as acute detail as possible. I relate to and aspire to her sensibility. Like Chew-Bose, I want to be “a critic who prefers the term “enthusiast,” and an essayist who worries [he’s] really a poet.”
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