I Remember

Author:   Joe Brainard ,  Paul Auster ,  Olivia Laing
Publisher:   Daunt Books
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9781917092234


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   03 July 2025
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With a new introduction by Olivia Laing, alongside Paul Auster's original. 'A masterpiece. One by one, the so-called important books of our time will be forgotten, but Joe Brainard's modest little gem will endure.' Paul Auster An enduring gem, Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic. Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each beginning with the refrain 'I remember': 'I remember that little jerk you give just before you fall asleep. Like falling.' Recollections - jokes, confessions, daydreams and memories - were carefully, lovingly woven together. They were of family and friends; of movie stars; of early heterosexual fumblings and later gay life. Brainard's pared-back prose dodged both self-pity and judgement of others, and was written with an ear for musical cadence and an extraordinary painter's eye. The result is witty, incantatory, profound and wholly captivating.

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Author:   Joe Brainard ,  Paul Auster ,  Olivia Laing
Publisher:   Daunt Books
Imprint:   Daunt Books
ISBN:  

9781917092234


ISBN 10:   1917092237
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   03 July 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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'In simple, forthright, declarative sentences, he charts the map of the human soul . . . I Remember is both uproariously funny and deeply moving.' Paul Auster 'I would make a case for I Remember as one of the twenty or so most important American autobiographies, important for its air of unimportance and for its mingling of cultural bric-a-brac with sexual frankness and self-revelation.' New Yorker 'Completely original.' Edmund White 'Buy it, for everyone you know . . . I can't think of a more original or lovely book.' Olivia Laing 'Joe Brainard discovered a memory machine.' Siri Hustvedt 'It's a great work that will last and last - in other words, it is literature.' James Shuyler 'Astonishing . . . a relentlessly specific time-capsule of a book, which bizarrely, movingly, seems to slip the confines of time.' Daily Telegraph 'A landmark work for so many memoirists.' Adelle Stripe


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Joe Brainard grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and moved to New York when he was eighteen, where he became a vital presence in the city's art and poetry scenes of the 1960s and 1970s. He died in 1994. Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. They are the author of seven books, including The Lonely City, Crudo and The Garden Against Time. In 2018, they were awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction and in 2017, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Laing's books have been translated into twenty-one languages.

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