SHORTLISTED FOR THE QWF MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE
GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 From LAMBDA Literary Award winner
Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young
queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of
chaos to a life of the mind Thirty years ago, a professor threw a
chair at Sina Queyras after they'd turned in an essay on Virginia
Woolf. Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with
Virginia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using
Woolf's A Room of One's Own as a touchstone, this book is both an
homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one's own at the
centre of our idea of a literary life. How central is the room? And
what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the
rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry, and
criticism, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young
queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of
chaos to a life of the mind, and from a very private life of the
mind to a public life of the page, and from a life of the page into
a life in the Academy, the Internet, and on social media. "With
Virginia Woolf alongside them, Queyras journeys through rooms
literal and figurative, complicating and deepening our
understanding of what it means to create space for oneself as a
writer. Their hard-won language challenges us to resist any glib
associations of Woolf's famous 'room' with an easy freedom.
Inspiring and moving, Queyras's memoir testifies to Woolf's
continuing generative power."-Mark Hussey, editor of Virginia
Woolf's Between the Acts (2011) and author of Clive Bell and the
Making of Modernism (2021) "In this beautiful, perceptive book,
Sina Queyras moves deftly between the words and wake of Virginia
Woolf and their own formation as writer, lover, teacher, friend,
and person. Rooms is expert in its depiction of personal and
literary histories, and firmly aware of its moment of composition.
Reading these pages, I was enticed by Queyras's curiosity and
openness, thrilled by the sharp edges of their anger. Tight prose,
electric thinking, self-discovery - it's all here, all abuzz. Rooms
is alive." - Heather Christle, author of The Crying Book "It is
impossible not to question the world as we thought we knew it by
the end of this book. Sina Queyras painstakingly aims their
extraordinary nerve and talent at Virginia Woolf's idea of a room
of one's own: 'It's a mistake to consider the room without all of
its entanglements.' Taking Woolf's cue, Queyras explores writing
that is not world-building but something far more generous and
transformative; as Woolf wrote, 'Literature is open to everybody.'"
- CAConrad, author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration
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