Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things Coviello Peter
Essays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.This is a book about loving things--books, songs, people--in the shadow of a felt, looming…
Specifikacia Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things Coviello Peter
Essays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.This is a book about loving things--books, songs, people--in the shadow of a felt, looming disaster. Through lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching essays, Peter Coviello considers pieces of culture across a fantastic range, setting them inside the vivid scenes of friendship, dispute, romance, talk, and loss, where they enter our lives. Alongside him, we reencounter movies like The Shining, shows like The Sopranos; videos; poems; novels by Sam Lipsyte, Sally Rooney, and Paula Fox; as well as songs by Joni Mitchell, Gladys Knight, Steely Dan, Pavement, and the much-mourned saint of Minneapolis, Prince.Navigating an overwhelming feeling that Coviello calls "endstrickenness," he asks what it means to love things in calamitous times, when so much seems to be