6/10/2023 0 Comments The Book of Delights by Ross Gay![]() ![]() A life lived to acknowledge delight, Gay tells us, is “not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss,” but simply pulls up a chair for delight to sit in, day after day: “a cup of coffee from a well-shaped cup,” “the topknot of the barista,” “the sweet glance of the man in his stylish short pants (well-lotioned ankles gleaming beneath).”Īs Gay describes, his book is a promise he made himself: that he would write one “delight” essay (or “essayette,” as he calls them) every day for a year. And as a book about, among other things, moving through the world as a black man, it is a different kind of “antiracist” book, one that resists dehumanization by insisting on delight. When I picked up Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights sometime in 2019, I didn’t expect that I would want to teach it, but these days, his idea of developing a “delight radar” feels more important than ever. ![]() ![]() I keep saying I’m not going to review books I teach, but I’ve found a loophole - I will review books that I haven’t taught yet. ![]()
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