Description
Mairead Small Staid's debut, The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Capri, The Traces draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson.
Author: Mairead Small Staid
Publisher: Strange Object
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781646052004
ISBN10: 1646052005
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Special Interest | Literary
- Travel | Europe | Italy
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
About the Author
Mairead Small Staid is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and Phillips Exeter Academy, where she was the Geoge Bennett Fellow. Her essays have appeared in AGNI, The Believer, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Minnesota.