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A Horse at Night: On Writing

Maybe someday

48

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

51/100

Critics

44/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Amina Cain

Publisher:

Dorothy, a publishing project

Date:

October 11, 2022

In Amina Cain's first nonfiction book, a series of essayistic inquiries come together to form a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life.

What The Reviewers Say

Sophie Brown,
Astra
Fragments of moving image, performance art, paintings, etchings, and prints materialize and dissipate, and a dialogue between these impressions opens up like a portal of ambiences, coming into focus yet remaining out of grasp.
Ankita Chakraborty,
The Observer (UK)
A chain of images moving fast, compiled to create a heightened, artful experience for the reader.
Lucy Sweeney Byrne,
The Irish Times (IRE)
Overwhelmingly, this book gave me an impression of obfuscation.
Brian Dillon,
4Columns
... an allusive and engaging account of the raptures you’d miss if complete creative ease were really possible.