Limbo - by Dan Fox (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>An essay on being stuck, and its opposites, by the author of <em>Pretentiousness: Why it Matters</em>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In a world that demands faith in progress and growth, <em>Limbo</em> is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded and those in the dark. Fusing memoir with a meditation on creative block and a cultural history of limbo, Dan Fox considers the role that fallow periods and states of inbetween play in art and life. <em>Limbo</em> is an essay about getting by when you can't get along, employing a cast of artists, ghosts and sailors - including the author's older brother who, in 1985, left England for good to sail the world - to reflect on the creative, emotional and political consequences of being stuck, and its opposites. From the Headington Shark to radical behavioural experiments, from life aboard a container ship to Sun Ra's cosmology, <em>Limbo</em> argues that there can be no growth without stagnancy, no movement without inactivity, and no progress without refusal. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'Dan Fox makes a very good case for a re-evaluation of the word pretentious. The desire to be more than we are shouldn't be belittled. Meticulously researched, persuasively argued - where would we be as a culture if no-one was prepared to risk coming across as pretentious? <i>Absolument</i> nowhere, darling - that's where.'<br>-- Jarvis Cocker <p/>'Dan Fox's book celebrates the art in artifice, the let's pretend in pretentiousness, arriving at an eloquent, important understanding of how culture has always provided an escape from the dreariness of routine work and productive life. Exhaustively researched and passionately written, recognizing those who audaciously "pretend" to beauty beyond their present means, <i>Pretentiousness</i> is a deeply optimistic and affirming book.'<br>-- Chris Kraus, author of<i>I Love Dick</i> <p/>'Epoch-making, epic, historic, unforgettable, triumphant, age-old, inevitable, inexorable, and veritable. Pretentiousness will never look the same.'<br>-- Elif Batuman, author of <i>The Possessed</i> <p/>'Fox is a nimble writer, and his book includes surprisingly rich detours through history, philosophy, criticism, literature.'<br>-- Jennifer Szalai, <i>New York Times</i><br><br>'Open-spirited and beautifully written.'<br>-- Kate Wakeling, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> <p/>'Every page of this small book surprises you and makes you think.'<br>-- Dan Kois, <i> Slate</i> <p/>'I felt understood reading Dan Fox's <i>Limbo</i>, a book-length essay for the unsteady and unsure among us.'<br>-- Nicole Flattery, author of <i>Show Them a Good Time</i> <p/> 'Dan Fox has produced a fascinating work of understated excellence, particularly given his starting point. Eloquent in its consideration of the subjects it focuses on and elegant in the brevity and precision of its chapters, <i>Limbo</i> gets to the heart of the matter and gives you something to think about.'<br>-- <i>Pendora Magazine</i> <p/>'<i>Limbo</i> mixes the historical, the conceptual and the anecdotal in a very elegant way, and it is a testament to Fox's ability as a writer that he can make, in what is a relatively short book, such disparate ideas and stories fall into place in a narrative that feels really clear and organised. ... While obviously an astute cultural theorist who can draw on a truly diverse range of sources, it is the personal element of <i>Limbo</i> brings out the storyteller in Fox. ... it is in writing about his family relationships, and the transition through adolescence into adulthood, which brings the true depth to the book.'<br>-- <i>The London Magazine</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Dan Fox is a writer, musician, and filmmaker. He is based in New York.</p>
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