{"title":"Peter Coviello","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Coviello's works invite readers into thoughtful explorations at the crossroads of \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, often probing the complexities of identity and meaning in contemporary life. His writing combines sharp literary insight with a reflective tone, offering nuanced perspectives that challenge and enrich the reader's understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles like \u003cem\u003eIs There God after Prince?\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVineland Reread\u003c\/em\u003e, Coviello engages deeply with cultural texts and ideas, making his work a compelling resource for both casual readers and those interested in \u003cstrong\u003eeducation and reference\u003c\/strong\u003e within the arts. His books encourage a meditative approach to literature and cultural phenomena alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"is-there-god-after-prince-by-peter-coviello-9780226828084","title":"Is There God after Prince?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEssays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about loving things—books, songs, people—in the shadow of a felt, looming disaster. Through lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching essays, Peter Coviello considers pieces of culture across a fantastic range, setting them inside the vivid scenes of friendship, dispute, romance, talk, and loss, where they enter our lives. Alongside him, we reencounter movies like \u003ci\u003eThe Shining\u003c\/i\u003e, shows like \u003ci\u003eThe Sopranos\u003c\/i\u003e; videos; poems; novels by Sam Lipsyte, Sally Rooney, and Paula Fox; as well as songs by Joni Mitchell, Gladys Knight, Steely Dan, Pavement, and the much-mourned saint of Minneapolis, Prince.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNavigating an overwhelming feeling that Coviello calls “endstrickenness,” he asks what it means to love things in calamitous times, when so much seems to be shambling toward collapse. Balancing comedy and anger, exhilaration and sorrow, Coviello illuminates the strange ways the things we cherish help us to hold on to life and to its turbulent joys. \u003ci\u003eIs There God after Prince?\u003c\/i\u003e shows us what twenty-first-century criticism can be, and how it might speak to us, in a time of ruin, in an age of “Last Things.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424408617196,"sku":"9780226828084","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226828084.jpg?v=1774768536"},{"product_id":"vineland-reread-by-peter-coviello-9780231185219","title":"Vineland Reread","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e is hardly anyone's favourite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon's return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic \u003cem\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/em\u003e, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked \u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon's writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with his early besotted encounters with \u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e, Coviello reads Pynchon's offbeat novel of sixties insurgents stranded in the Reaganite summer of 1984 as a delirious stoner comedy that is simultaneously a work of heartsick fury and political grief: a portrait of the hard afterlives of failed revolution in a period of stifling reaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a roving meditation on the uses of criticism and the practice of friendship, the fashioning of publics and counterpublics, the sentence and the police, Coviello argues that \u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e is among the most abundant and far-sighted of late-century American excursions into novelistic possibility. Departing from visions of Pynchon as the arch-postmodernist, erudite and obscure, he discloses an author far more companionable and humane. In Pynchon's harmonising of joyousness and outrage, comedy and sorrow, Coviello finds a model for thinking through our catastrophic present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433267183852,"sku":"9780231185219","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231185219.jpg?v=1774765299"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/peter-coviello.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}