Named a best book of 2017 by NPR,The Guardian,Slate,NYLONandThe 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 essays about identity and culture.
Too Much and Not the Mood is a beautiful and surprising exploration of what it means to be a first-generation, creative young woman working today. On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writers Diary with the words too much and not the mood to describe her frustration with placating her readers, what she described as the cramming in and the cutting out. She wondered if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying.
The attitude of that sentiment inspired Durga Chew-Bose to gather own writing in this lyrical collection of poetic essays that examine personhood and artistic growth. Drawing inspiration from a diverse group of incisive and inquiring female authors, Chew-Bose captures the inner restlessness that keeps her always on the brink of creative expression.
An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice
Durga Chew-Boseis a Montreal-born writer. Her work has appeared in
The Globe and Mail,
Hazlitt,
Filmmaker,
The New Inquiry, and
The Guardian, among other publications. She is the author of
Too Much and Not the Mood.
A warmly considered meld of criticism and memoir, a self-portrait of the writer as intrepid mental wanderer. [Chew-Bose's] enthusiasms for art, literature, movies, friendship, and family life are as broad as they are deeply felt. This is a book to slip into your pocket for company during a day of solitary walking. Alexandra Schwartz,New Yorker
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