Join us on October 26, 7pm (BST) for a discussion of Daniela Cascella’s Nothing As We Need It. The book is available from the publisher, Punctum Books. If you can’t afford a paper copy, the PDF version is free. If you can afford a paper copy, then do your bit to help an indie publisher!
About the book (from the publisher’s site): “Shaped by encounters with literature not translated in English, by the polyphonies, artifices, and concealments of a bilingual self, and by the sense of speechlessness and haunting when writing works that cannot be instantly quoted, this book’s subtitle derives from the mythological Chimera: a monstrous creature made of three different parts, impossible in theory but real in the imagination and in the reading of the myth. Similarly the book is written in different styles, some of which may seem impossible, monstrous, and disturbing.”
About the author: Daniela Cascella is a British-Italian writer. She is the author of Chimeras: A Deranged Essay, An Imaginary Conversation, A Transcelation (Sublunary Editions, 2022), Singed: Muted Voice-Transmissions, After The Fire (Equus Press, 2017), F.M.R.L.: Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound (Zer0 Books, 2015), and En Abîme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction (Zer0 Books, 2012).