EMILY’S PICK

A novella about the beginning of a writing life and its obsessive, maddening trials and failures. Gladman is so gifted and a true joy to read. -EW

A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time.

Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, To After That (TOAF) introduced a new kind of writingsomewhere between criticism and memoir and philosophythat Renee Gladman has continued to explore in books like Calamities and My Lesbian Novel.

TOAF is a recuperative song, an effort to give space and life to an abandoned project, but it is also, itself, a beautiful meditation on process and distance and duration, and a reminder that time is the subject of any writing.

Paperback | 82 pages | 5.50″ x 7.00″