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Astra 1

Ecstasy: Issue One

Nadja Spiegelman

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English
Astra House
31 May 2022
Astra Magazine is a brand new international literary magazine, an emerging must-read for anyone interested in the best new literature from around the world.

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond around a unified aesthetic that highlights the luxurious pleasures of reading. Each issue contains prose, poetry, art and comics, artfully produced on silky smooth paper with luxurious French flaps. The Ecstasy Issue contains work by Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, Catherine Lacey, Leslie Jamison, Solmaz Sharif, Terrance Hayes, Don Mee Choi, Ada Lim n, Chinelo Okparanta, Sayaka Murata, Katharina Volckmer, Kate Zambreno, and many more.
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Imprint:   Astra House
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 249mm,  Width: 165mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9781662619007
ISBN 10:   1662619006
Pages:   160
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nadja Spiegelman is the author of the memoir I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This and several award-winning comics for children, as well as the co-editor of the 2016 project Resist! a free publication of women's comics and graphics. Previously the online editor of The Paris Review, she is now the editor-in-chief of a new international literary print quarterly, Astra Magazine.

Reviews for Astra 1: Ecstasy: Issue One

PRAISE FOR THE WRITERS IN THIS ISSUE: In his five books, [Terrance Hayes] has perfected a sort of poem where wild jams carom inside arbitrary formal boundaries. --Dan Chiasson, New Yorker Kawakami's voice is intimate, musical, at times wry and powerfully observant to the inner lives of women and girls. - Elle Magazine Catherine Lacey, a fiction wunderkind who writes with dynamite, has recreated herself, and our ideas about what novels can do... --Vulture


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