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The Longcut
Series: American Literature Series
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The Longcut
From Museum of Modern Art editor Emily Hall, a debut novel in the first person about the place of art and the artist in the world.
Serial rights targeting New Yorker, Paris Review, Harper’s, n+1, Lit Hub Print and digital publicity targeting NPR, The Atlantic, Bookforum, Los Angeles Times, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation, Lit Hub, Electric Literature Multi-city national tour targeting independent bookstores; promotion at festivals Review copies sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request Promotion on publisher’s website and social media; promotion via e-newsletters to booksellers, reviewers
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The narrator of The Longcut is an artist who doesn't know what her art is. As she gets lost on her way to a meeting in an art gallery, walking around in circles in a city she knows perfectly well, she finds herself endlessly sidetracked and distracted by the question of what her work is and how she'll know it when she sees it.
Her mental peregrinations take her through the elements that make up her life: her dull office job where she spends the day moving items into a "completed" column, insomniac nights in her so-called studio (also known as her tiny apartment), and encounters with an enigmatic friend who may or may not know her better than she knows herself.
But wherever she looks she finds only more questions—what is the difference between the world and the photographed world, why do objects wither in different contexts, what is Cambridge blue—that lead her further away from the one thing that really matters.
An extraordinary feat of syntactical dexterity and comic ingenuity, The Longcut is ultimately a story of resistance to easy answers and the place of art and the artist in the world.
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Emily Hall's The Longcut has captivated readers with its bold exploration of the artistic process and the struggle to create under the weight of societal expectations. Described as both hilarious and claustrophobic, this debut novel dives into the anxieties of an artist questioning the very nature of their work amidst the distractions of modern life. Critics highlight its distinctive style and daring narrative that challenges traditional perspectives on art and capitalism.
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ISBN: 9781628973976
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 June 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 120
About the Author
Emily Hall has been a contributor to Artforum since 2003; her writing has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Stranger, and the zine RedHeaded StepChild. The Longcut, her first novel, was shortlisted for the 2020 Novel Prize. She lives in New York, where she edits exhibition catalogues at The Museum of Modern Art.
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