Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy by Pham, Larissa

Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy

A warm and expansive portrait of a woman's mind that feels at once singular and universal, this...
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Author: Larissa Pham
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Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy by Pham, Larissa

Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy

$68.70

Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy

$68.70
Author: Larissa Pham
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A warm and expansive portrait of a woman's mind that feels at once singular and universal, this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed).

Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go.

Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love--with a place, or a painting, or a person--and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss--from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works, and Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde--Pham writes of her youthful attempts to find meaning in travel, sex, drugs, and art, before sensing that she might need to turn her gaze upon herself.

Pop Song is also a book about distances, near and far. As she travels from Taos, New Mexico, to Shanghai, China and beyond, Pham meditates on the miles we are willing to cover to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed.

Pop Song is a book about all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home. There is heartache in these pages, but Pham's electric ways of seeing create a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy that is triumphant in both its vulnerability and restlessness.

Each of the essays in this debut collection reads like a mini-memoir . . . in which the author reflects on her experiences of young love, trauma, and transcendence through discussions of art and music . . . with an intimacy that is at once tender and expansive. --New York magazine

Author: Larissa Pham
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781646220267


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/26/2021 pg. 1
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 05/03/2021
Booklist 05/01/2021 pg. 12

About the Author
Larissa Pham is an artist and writer in Brooklyn. Born in Portland, Oregon, she studied painting and art history at Yale University. She has written essays and criticism for the Paris Review Daily, The Nation, Art in America, Guernica, and elsewhere. She was an inaugural Yi Dae Up fellowship recipient from the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat. She is also the author of Fantasian, a novella.

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