{"product_id":"i-remember-by-joe-brainard","title":"I Remember by Joe Brainard","description":"\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e‘A masterpiece. One by one, the so-called important books of our time will be forgotten, but Joe Brainard’s modest little gem will endure.’  Paul Auster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a new introduction by Olivia Laing, alongside Paul Auster’s original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn enduring gem, Joe Brainard’s \u003cem\u003eI Remember\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary and artistic cult classic. Brainard’s method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each beginning with the refrain ‘I remember’: ‘I remember that little jerk you give just before you fall asleep. Like falling.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecollections – jokes, confessions, daydreams and memories – were carefully, lovingly woven together. They were of family and friends; of movie stars; of early heterosexual fumblings and later gay life. Brainard’s pared-back prose dodged both self-pity and judgement of others, and was written with an ear for musical cadence and an extraordinary painter’s eye. The result is witty, incantatory, profound and wholly captivating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e‘Astonishing . . . a relentlessly specific time-capsule of a book, which bizarrely, movingly, seems to slip the confines of time.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e‘I would make a case for \u003cem\u003eI Remember\u003c\/em\u003e as one of the twenty or so most important American autobiographies, important for its air of unimportance and for its mingling of cultural bric-a-brac with sexual frankness and self-revelation.’ \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback \/ 400 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56452541383037,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/iremember.jpg?v=1752586097","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/i-remember-by-joe-brainard","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}