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The Importance Of Being Iceland: Travel Essays In Art (2009)

by Eileen Myles(Favorite Author)

4.24 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1584350660 (ISBN13: 9781584350668)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

MIT Press (MA)

review 1: This book is more or less a series of articles and interviews written as streams of consciousness. There are plenty of references to people and projects the reader is supposed to already know about although I suspect that would only be possible if the reader were part of the very small New York scene that Ms. Myles represents and that I happen to be very far from. Somewhat entertaining but too dense to want to read all of it.
review 2: Listened to E.M. read the first essay. Over the course of 1.5 hours, the 30 or 40 of us packed into Machine Project experienced the meanderings and confusion and reconceptualizings and uncertain discoveries that travel provides, plus weird run-ins with Bjork and Sigur Ros, without having to leave our chamomile and beanbag chair... mores. Can't imagine another out-loud voice I could stay with for so long. Someday I will travel again, and before I do, I'll read the rest of this book. less

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