Everything is Personal: Notes on Now

Everything is Personal, Notes on Now is a collage of hybrid narratives that begin with the stunning events of November 2016 and challenge Stone to feel good when everything is bad. Freely jumping between social commentary, criticism, memoir, and fiction, the pieces are constructed the way dreams and films are: juxtaposing images, racing along with dolly shots, moving in for close-ups, and pulling back for a sweeping sense of time. Woven throughout are chunks from Stone's Facebook posts that read like tender and funny postcards written to everyone from a time that is unimaginable, even as it's being lived.

"Stone is engaging, sharp, funny throughout these pages but no matter how far she ranges, she holds onto the recognition that daily life in the US is being lived under a dark cloud. She makes the stakes very clear. Her Notes on Now are completely illuminating."

--Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick, from the Introduction

"To read Laurie Stone's Everything is Personal, Notes on Now is to read Laurie Stone, is to experience a present tense intimacy with a lusty, testy, ebullient, scintillating mind, a woman's mind..."

--Diane Seuss, author of Four-Legged Girl and Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl

"Stone knows that in a world crowded with opinions, a thought can't just be good, it has to be elegant. Her powerful sentences smile at their own precision, they don't just make a social point but offer a model on how to think, how to think in this time."

--Michael Tolkin, author of The Player and cowriter of Escape at Dannemora.

"Everything Is Personal is a galvanic account of our era, a trumpet blare aimed at sleepwalkers... A voice unlike any other, she's a fearless thinker in an age submerged in fear."

--Emily Nussbaum, author of I Like to Watch