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| U.K. Edition, Boiler House Press, 2022 |
“The letters are intimate . . . erudite, and often funny. On display is a rigorous mind, a fiery intellect, a curious and engaged reader. Adrian brings lofty ideas—questions of attention and meaning, of the troubling permeability between inside and outside, of reality itself—down to the meat-and-feeling human level.” —The Boston Globe
“[Adrian's] dynamic work of both literary and self-analysis will appeal to those passionate readers who have vacillated between adoring certain authors and wanting to throw their books across the room.” —Publisher's Weekly
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| University of Nebraska Press, 2018 |
“Astonishing and inventive. [Adrian's] glossary is strangely gripping, with a momentum pulling the reader in and through. The result is whimsical, even darkly funny at times, brimming with compassion, terribly sad and deeply loving. Memoir readers should not miss this singular offering.” —Shelf Awareness
“An intimate and searching accumulation of the moments, tender and brutal, that heap together and create a life.” —The Boston Globe
“A stunning merger of form and content; a remarkable portrait-becomes-self-portrait.” —David Shields, author of Reality Hunger
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| Bloomsbury, 2017 |
“If a book called Sock makes you think, 'Twenty-five-thousand words on socks? Uh, no,' then you’re unclear on the concept. You’re also missing out on a thoroughly delightful discussion.” —Washington Independent Review of Books
“An utterly engaging investigation — not so much of [the sock], per se, as of human evolution, anatomy, physics, sexuality, fashion, painting, consumerism, manufacturing, and motherhood. . . . Illuminating, erudite, deeply intelligent.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
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| University of Nebraska, 2018 |
“The essays in this collection bring with them a sense of hope about literature and its capacity for evolution and change.” —The Millions
“Kim Adrian’s introduction demonstrates the potential and beauty of the hermit crab approach as she lays out the history of the metaphor using kingdom, phyla, species, etc., to identify the literary heritage and taxonomy of the hermit crab essay itself. . . . Her introduction, as lyrical as it is, is often laugh-out-loud funny.” —Literary Journalism Studies
