Numinosity: A Fractured Memoir

Numinosity: A Fractured Memoir is a book audaciously modeled on the iconic Life magazine. It consists of six chapters, each an issue of a photo journal called Numinosity. The content is based on pulse-raising events of the times and Morganstein's eccentric family history, woven into a fictionalized memoir. The issues feature articles written by invented personalities, all played by the author. In addition, she creates all of the advertisements for pretend products, making fun of consumerism with fond ambivalence. Like the artist Cindy Sherman, Morganstein uses her insecurities and swagger to make a larger point about the relationship of humor and tragedy in art, emphasizing that the key to liberating oneself from the past is embracing memory and creating a tragicomic story from it.

Author: Linda Morganstein
Publisher: Linda Morganstein
Published: 10/12/2017
Pages: 148
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780692941843

About the Author
Morganstein, Linda: - Linda Morganstein is an award-winning, overeducated writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, who also happens to be the product of a Borscht Belt childhood in the Jewish hotels of the Catskills. In the 1970s, she dropped out of Vassar College and drove a VW van to California, where she lived in Sonoma County for many years. Later, she studied creative writing with Jane Smiley in Iowa. She currently resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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