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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Rothfeld, Becca, author.     Subjects     American essays -- 21st century.     Excess (Philosophy)     Income distribution.     Art and society.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rothfeld, Becca, author.       by title:      All things are too s...         MARC Display

All things are too small : essays in praise of excess / Becca Rothfeld. by Rothfeld, Becca, author. New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2024. Subjects American essays -- 21st century.   Excess (Philosophy)   Income distribution.   Art and society. ISBN:  9781250849915 (hardcover) : 1250849918 (hardcover) : Description:  285 pages ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  All things are too small -- More is more -- Ladies in waiting -- The flesh, it makes you crazy -- Murder on the installment plan -- Wherever you go, you could leave -- Other people's loves -- Having a cake and eating it, too -- Only mercy : sex after consent -- Normal novels -- Two lives, simultaneous and perfect -- Our true entertainment was arguing. Requests:  10 Summary:  A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, Sally Rooney, David Cronenberg, and consent. In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture that is flattened and sanitized, purged of ugliness, excess, and provocation. Our embrace of minimalism has left us spiritually impoverished. We see it in our homes, where we bring in Marie Kondo to rid them of their idiosyncrasies and darknesses. We take up mindfulness to do the same thing to our heads, emptying them of the musings, thoughts, and obsessions that make us who we are. In the bedroom, a new wave of puritanism has drained sex of its unpredictability and therefore true eroticism. In our fictions, the quest for balance has given us protagonists who aspire only to excise their appetites. We have flipped our values, Rothfeld argues: while the gap between rich and poor yawns hideously wide, we strive to compensate with egalitarianism in art, erotics, and taste, where it does not belong and where it quashes wild experiments and exuberance. Lush, provocative, and bitingly funny, All Things Are Too Small is a subversive soul cry to restore imbalance, obsession, gluttony, and ravishment to all domains of our lives.-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Status   Hawaii State Library Acquisitions, LLH in Processing Add Copy to MyList

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