Clare Carlisle: Transcendence for Beginners pulitzerFitzcarraldo Editions, 2025, softcover, 184 pages, 19 x 13 cm Transcendence for Beginners examines life writing and philosophy across certain European and Indian traditions, exploring questions of childhood and mortality, art and religion, beauty and loss. Informed by her experience as a biographer of Sren Kierkegaard and George Eliot as well as her own life, Clare Carlisle asks what one human existence can reveal, and how writing can transmit its
Situated within the confluence of decolonial feminist theory
and ways in which vulnerability
a compendium of texts
An effort to merge language and formlessness in a yearn for a cyclic work
Slutty Cheff is an anonymous London chef who knows what it's really like to work in the capital's hectic restaurant scene
but as a form of the body’s narrative capability
sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction
Tony Benn was a respectable Labour minister in his forties
then I challenge them to finish this book
The book closes with a unique discussion of the market for "vanity blotter"--more recent perforated papers produced as collectible art objects never meant to be dipped in LSD
Challenging our assumptions about photographic agency and the interplay between art and life
Interweaving personal reminiscence with cogent analysis