**"I had a real romance with this book." --Miranda July
A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has
called, "bracingly good...refreshing and welcome," that explores the
myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect.**
From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar daddies,
Schopenhauer, and a deadly game of Russian roulette, in these essays,
Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and
the proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, our intimacy, and
our own bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking,
linking, and sharing.
Starting with Hodson's own work experience, which ranges from the
mundane to the bizarre--including modeling and working on a NASA Mars
mission-- Hodson expands outward, looking at the ways in which the human
will submits, whether in the marketplace or in a relationship. Both
tender and jarring, this collection is relevant to anyone who's ever
searched for what the self is worth.
Hodson's accumulation within each piece is purposeful, and her prose
vivid, clear, and sometimes even shocking, as she explores the wonderful
and strange forms of desire. Tonight I'm Someone Else is a fresh,
poetic debut from an exciting emerging voice, in which Hodson asks, "How
much can a body endure?" And the resounding answer: "Almost everything."
