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This is a delightful book, one as quirkily insightful as it is entertaining.- Kirkus Reviews Little Data turns like an Alfa Romeo racing Formula One. Here, says the title, take a nut of an idea then squeeze it until the juice comes out. Each bit of data here is extracted, transformed, crushed, then palpated back to life. Who knew so much love could be drawn from airports and backpacks, obstacle courses and salami? Schaberg and Yakich are excellent drivers and take the turns with mad skill - a high-speed Dickinson, an autobahn Basho, a freeway Rimbaud.- NICOLE WALKER, author of Processed Meats In this glossary of contemporary terms and concepts, deftly and delightfully defamiliarized, the authors reveal an uncanny ability to zoom in on the details of modernity and consider them in such a way that the everyday becomes once again miraculous.- MATTHEW VOLLMER, author of All of Us Together in the End Against certainty and smug quantification, Little Data resists the banal commodification of contemporary parenting manuals. By exploring the humility of being human, the sordid failures of our idealisms, and the insoluble paradox of choice, these mini-essays remind us that although test results and quizzes haven't made people more legible to one another, children still can.- ALINA STEFANESCU, author of Every Mask I Tried On CHRISTOPHER SCHABERG is the Director of Public Scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. His most recent books are Adventure: An Argument for Limits (Bloomsbury, 2023), Fly-Fishing (Duke University Press, 2023), and Pedagogy of the Depressed (Bloomsbury, 2022). MARK YAKICH is the Gregory F. Curtin S.J., Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. His most recent books are Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (Bloomsbury, 2022), Football: An Object Lesson(Bloomsbury, 2022), and Spiritual Exercises (Penguin, 2019). Product Details: Copyright: Christopher Schaberg & Mark Yakich (Standard Copyright License)Publisher: Red Flag PressPublished: March 2024Language: EnglishPages: 108Binding: Perfect BoundInterior Ink: Black & white textDimensions (inches): 8.5x5.5ISBN: 978-1-73781-642-3

Interviews from the Edge presents a selection of conversations, drawn from 50 years of the international journal New Orleans Review, that dive head-first into the most enduring aesthetic and social concerns of the last half century. From reflections on the making of literature and films to personal accounts of writing inside racial divides and working against capital punishment, the writers, poets, and activists featured in this book offer not only a fresh perspective on our present struggles but also perhaps a way through them-for writers and readers alike. "I think it's frightfully important, and this is really much more difficult than it sounds, only to say what you absolutely believe." - Christopher Isherwood "Most American writers probably do not think of their writing as a kind of activism. And it shouldn't have to be-I don't think we can impose that on writers-but it can be. I think for many writers, the ones I admire-it is." - Viet Thanh Nguyen "Do you become a writer because you desire to become famous and make a lot of money? Or do you become a writer because there's something you discovered, this spark, this flash, that you want to share with other human beings knowing that they can enter into the words too?" - Sister Helen Prejean "The hardest part of developing a style is that you have to learn to trust your voice. If I thought of my style, I'd be crippled. Somebody else said to me a long time ago in France, 'Find out what you can do, and then don't do it.'" - James Baldwin "As I have grown older, I have come to see that the romantic notion of the outsider in love with death doesn't solve a thing. It only makes life worse. We have to find ways to create communities." - Valerie Martin

Mark Yakich is an original... In the unabashedly unwieldy title and in each poem, there are no borders drawn between the commonplace and the metaphysical. There are journeys, crossings, and departures-all evocative of the loneliness, alienation, and desire for identity with another (person or place), which, formalized, makes this work recognizable as art of a very high order." -James Galvin, Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment of the Arts Fellow

Poetry. Subversive, erotic, and sublime, POETRY FOR PLANES challenges the conventions of airplane reading. Family, faith, technology, celebrity--yes, they are here. But so too is sex as philanthropy, flight as weltschmerz, and grammar as the ultimate loneliness. In a world that often seems to have lost its affinity for wonder, POETRY FOR PLANES reminds us that our greatest sense is our sense of wordplay.