{"product_id":"funny-weather-9780393867398","title":"Funny Weather","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (\u003cem\u003eHarper’s Bazaar\u003c\/em\u003e) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Olivia Laing is] a kind of cultural sage… an accidental literary grande dame of the emotional havoc wrought by late capitalism and digital disconnect.\" -- Hillary Kelly - Vulture\u003cbr\u003e\"Laing’s arts writing is sharp-minded, and her manner is generous toward both subject and reader.\" -- John Glassie - Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"Laing writes of her creative subjects in a winning, passionate voice that proves both soothing and galvanizing, especially amid a panic.… It’s not just art we need in an emergency, but writers, like Laing, who gently guide our eyes to what’s out there.\" -- Alina Cohen - Observer\u003cbr\u003e\"As exterior life shuts temporarily down, \u003cem\u003eFunny Weather\u003c\/em\u003e is an immensely useful reminder that new space can be intellectual as well as physical.… Laing animates her prose with concise, brainy descriptions of visual art.… Laing is a tremendously gifted genre-mixer, and her writing flourishes most when its topic requires her both to observe and to imagine.… \u003cem\u003eFunny Weather\u003c\/em\u003e is an invitation to Laing’s imaginary museum, where minds if not bodies meet, and where true hospitality resides.\" -- Lily Meyer - Hyperallergic\u003cbr\u003e\"Laing opens each piece with a deceptive ease [and] alights upon poetic insights.… [H]er light touch throughout these essays makes room for some stunning perceptions.\" -- A.V. Club\u003cbr\u003e\"A thought-provoking, inspiring collection that you can go back to whenever the weather takes a funny turn.\" -- Susannah Butter - Evening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFunny Weather\u003c\/em\u003e gives the reader a tangible sense of the sprawling garden of work which Laing has planted. She is to the art world what David Attenborough is to nature: a worthy guide with both a macro and micro vision, fluent in her chosen tongue and always full of empathy and awe.\" -- Mia Colleran - Irish Times\u003cbr\u003e\"An incisive meditation on the value of heartfelt, messy art in our paranoid times.\" -- Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine writer’s embrace of the artists who preceded her, friendly visits with their lives, and loving acknowledgement of their foundational contributions. A work of joy in recognition.\" -- Sarah Schulman, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse\u003cbr\u003e\"Like all great critics, Olivia Laing combines formidable intelligence with boundless curiosity and fabulous taste, but she also has a rare quality of intimacy; an ability to connect the reader to a work of art or literature (or for that matter a facet of life itself) with a directness that lights it up like nothing else. It’s why I read her.\" -- James Lasdun, author of Afternoon of a Faun","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402027344215,"sku":"9780393867398","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393867398.jpg?v=1730479183","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/funny-weather-9780393867398","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}