Siri Hustvedt's Living, Thinking, Looking is published by Sceptre.
Another collection of essays, "Living, Thinking, Looking," will be published in June.
Hustvedt's Living, Thinking, Looking contained essays that were personal, philosophical, and aesthetic.
I was also excited to see Siri Hustvedt's collection of essays, Living, Thinking, Looking (Sceptre).
Like a good poem, "Living, Thinking, Looking" is by turns concrete and abstract, illuminating hidden corners of experience and feeling.
"To look at the tablets even now is to be in the presence of other people — living, thinking, literate people," she writes.
Of course we couldn't live like that - we couldn't live thinking about everything or we'd never be able to survive.
The British cover for Siri Hustvedt's recent essay collection, "Living, Thinking, Looking," shows a woman presumably engaged in these activities, although it's hard to confirm; her back is to us.
These forms, being one with Intellect and therefore with each other, are not merely objects but are living, thinking subjects, each not only itself but, in its contemplation, the whole.
Kate Latham Gunnislake, Cornwall Siri Hustvedt's Living, Thinking, Looking (Hodder) is a wonderful mix of the personal and the erudite, covering subjects as diverse as not sleeping, looking at art and the process of reading.
