The Dead Ladies Project - Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

Informationen zum Autor Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of the magazines Bookslut and Spolia . She has written for the New York Times , Guardian , Washington Post , Los Angeles Review of Books , NPR.org , Chicago Sun-Times , Architect Magazine , and other publications. She has lived in Kansas, Texas, Ireland, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere. Klappentext Jessa Crispin s first book--a work of literary nonfiction about drifters. Crispin s own peregrinations and rootlessness are legendary to the blogger s many fans and readers. As Crispin sees it, the problem with most books about drifters is that they do not understand, or really get at, the longing of someone without a permanent address. Crispin investigates the energy created between person and place, using her own search for a new home and a string of fascinating personalities that have always captured her fancy. Together with her dead ladies Crispin visits the places that were important to them (Paris, Berlin, Trieste, London, Moscow, Sarajevo), and that become important to her, too. These chapters, each devoted to a single person, are filled with ghosts and literature and history, but they are equally alive with the sights and smells and sounds of today."

Product details

• Authors: Jessa Crispin, Crispin Jessa
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780226278452
• ISBN: 978-0-226-27845-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Travel writing, Literary studies: general