{"product_id":"9781964322995","title":"Worthy of the Event","description":"Author: Vivian Blaxell\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781964322995\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: LittlePuss Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 296\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMove over Michel de Montaigne, there's a new girl in town\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s, Vivian Blaxell takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australia to Japan, to Hawai'i to Mexico, to heretofore unmapped regions of the mind. In seven devastatingly intelligent parts, her essay covers a vast range in time and space - from the arson of a Japanese temple to a transformative encounter with a coral reef, from Nietzsche and Hegel to Indigenous metaphysics, from a perplexing relationship with a beautiful man to the unknowable minds of animals. Fleshy and philosophical, searching and exalted, utterly distinctive and assured, \u003ci\u003eWorthy of the Event\u003c\/i\u003e belatedly establishes Vivian Blaxell as one of the major writers of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'At a time where trans rights and bodily autonomy are under threat, it's voices like Vivian's which we need to platform and listen to.'  Soaliha Iqbal,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMissing Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorthy of the Event\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ewill strike you as the work of a lifetime.'  Elese Dowden,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOverland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'These essays span years  the book seems to contain a whole library of experience.'  Torrey Peters, author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStag Dance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDetransition Baby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Blaxell's sentences buck and slither, even as they feel like talking, like taking a walk. It's kinetic; it's intimate too.'  Agnes Borinsky,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An illuminating and unique addition to the essay form.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Worthy of the Event\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is unabashedly poetic and lyrical in its tender descriptions of the worst and best things in Blaxell's life of up-and-down multitudes,while maintaining the exacting analysis of an essay by a philosophical academic.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Honi Soit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'There is a propulsive ongoingness to [Blaxell's] sentences, stockpiling clauses in an infectious style that is thrilling, vertiginous, teetering on the brink of too-much-ness, dense with poetry and ideas.'  Rebecca Harkins-Cross, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Paper  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Seldom have trans women allowed themselves the montage-cut intellect claimed so readily by the prime literary flneurs; trans womanhood has signified too much body, too much history, too much too-much, to be so fleet-footed. Blaxell writes close to the transgender body, but shows that this is never in tension with truly existential and world-historical scope.'  Amelia C. Winter, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46875650162846,"sku":"ADS-9781964322995","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781964322995.jpg?v=1779754694","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781964322995","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}