{"product_id":"equipment-for-living-9781476747101","title":"Equipment for Living","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis coming soon.......\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Equipment for Living \u003c\/i\u003eis funny and smart.”\u003cb\u003e—Louis Menand, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ugh, there should be a law against being as smart as Michael Robbins. Here he is, interspersing these exhilarating micro-readings of modern poetry and pop music—which he treats, in a moving and 100% convincing way as a single tradition—with an overarching argument for the function of poetry! This book is itself “equipment for living,” not to mention “\u003ci\u003ea sad and angry consolation.\u003c\/i\u003e” It will depress you and uplift you and fill your head with music.\"\u003cb\u003e—Elif Batuman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Possessed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Michael Robbins can deal up and down with Wallace Stevens and Taylor Swift, Gwendolyn Brooks and Def Leppard, Frederick Seidel and Prince. He has done all the reading about the form, function, and economy of art, but also done the feeling about the desire and need of it. Unashamed, he wants to rock. Won't you take a chance on him?”\u003cb\u003e—Ben Ratliff, author of \u003ci\u003eEvery Song Ever \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eColtrane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This man can write.\"\u003cb\u003e—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Equipment for Living\u003c\/i\u003e sounds plausibly enough like a piece of technology in need of constant recharging. I took it with me on a recent tour through the bruised U.S. and no cords or batteries were needed. It ended up recharging me — funny, profane, insightful, petulant, elegant, heart-felt. Not that its heart is in the right place. Its heart is all over the place, which is where a good heart should be: spreading agony and consolation and devotion. We started out in Salt Lake City as fellow travelers leery of one another but by Nashville we were parting as friends determined to see each other again soon. (Don’t miss the last chapter “Playlist”; it’s the coda that reunites it all.)\"\u003cb\u003e—Mark Z. Danielewski, author of \u003ci\u003eOnly Revolutions \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Freakishly original.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—ELLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Robbins is erudite and meticulous, widely and deeply read, [and] an agile thinker…\u003ci\u003e Equipment for Living\u003c\/i\u003e insists at every turn that despite its inherent parasitism, criticism is a creative discipline—a venue for originality and exploration, for agon and jouissance. In short, an art form. I only wish more critics would follow his lead.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49530708033879,"sku":"9781476747101","price":15.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476747101.jpg?v=1731880244","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/equipment-for-living-9781476747101","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}