6 Best essays books like Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment by Philippa Snow

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Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment

By: Philippa Snow

4.38

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A blending of art and pop cultural criticism about people who injure themselves for our entertainme…

If you liked the essays plot in Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment by Philippa Snow , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Ice

By: Anna Kavan

3.67

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more

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"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

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2. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.71

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more

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"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

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3. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

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4. Closer

By: Dennis Cooper

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more

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5. Blood and Guts in High School

By: Kathy Acker , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more

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6. A Horse at Night: On Writing

By: Amina Cain

4.03

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

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7. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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8. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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9. Children of Paradise

By: Camilla Grudova

3.49

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more

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10. Kick the Latch

By: Kathryn Scanlan

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more

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11. All Down Darkness Wide

By: Seán Hewitt

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

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12. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

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13. Mona

By: Pola Oloixarac

3.30

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixara… read more

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"There was a niche sort of glamour to it, like being a rare specimen of an endangered species—as though her myste- rious DNA were a tiara encrusted with rare pearls, and the universities each a mas- s…"

-Pola Oloixarac, Mona

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14. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

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"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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15. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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16. Play Boy

By: Constance Debré

3.25

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more

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17. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

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"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

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18. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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20. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

By: Chloé Hayden

4.34

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."

-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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21. Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

By: Emma Dabiri

4.06

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

An unmissable essay from Emma Dabiri, Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and Wh… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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22. Brian

By: Jeremy Cooper

3.83

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community,  Brian  is also a tangential wor… read more

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  • art
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23. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

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"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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24. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

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25. Porn: An Oral History

By: Polly Barton

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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26. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

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"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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27. Houses of the Unholy

By: Ed Brubaker

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn… read more

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28. Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking

By: Marianne Eloise

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of the intersection of neurodivergence, obsession and disorder Obsessive was, sti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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29. Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment

By: Philippa Snow

4.38

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A blending of art and pop cultural criticism about people who injure themselves for our entertainme… read more

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  • theory
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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30. Stupid Baby

By: New Juche

4.50

Format: 52 pages, Stapled booklet

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31. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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Transform Your Habits

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Amina Cain

4.03

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Claire Dederer

3.79

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All Down Darkness Wide

Seán Hewitt

4.19

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Blake Butler

3.66

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Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

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Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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3.78

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