{"product_id":"socialist-realism-by-trisha-low","title":"'Socialist Realism' by Trisha Low","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"36\" data-end=\"635\"\u003eTrisha Low’s \u003cem data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"68\"\u003eSocialist Realism\u003c\/em\u003e is a slippery, essayistic work of memoir, criticism, political longing, art writing, and self-interrogation.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"36\" data-end=\"635\"\u003eIt begins from a desire to escape capitalism’s dead air. Moving between New York, the Bay Area, art, family, gender, illness, romance, left politics, and the fantasy of elsewhere, Low writes with a kind of glamorous exhaustion: funny, sharp, wounded, intellectually restless, and suspicious of both cynicism and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"1289\"\u003eThis sits beautifully in that zone between autotheory and experimental nonfiction: Maggie Nelson, Chris Kraus, Dodie Bellamy, Kate Zambreno, McKenzie Wark, Wayne Koestenbaum, but with a distinct tonal weirdness of its own. The “socialist realism” of the title is less Soviet aesthetic program than emotional problem: how to imagine a collective future when the self is still vain, scared, embodied, desiring, compromised, and looking for somewhere to live. For readers interested in queer\/trans literary nonfiction, art criticism, affect, left melancholy, performance, and books that understand political desire as both serious and faintly humiliating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1291\" data-end=\"1533\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCoffee House Press paperback, 2019. Stated as an Emily Books Original. Full number line visible, indicating first printing. Good second-hand condition with light handling and shelfwear visible to cover and corners.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45705574023251,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-16T200852.250.png?v=1781604557","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/socialist-realism-by-trisha-low","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}