Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781573661867)

Essays on the apparitional, the incomprehensible, and the paranormal in conversation with art, travel, and storytelling

The ghosts--literal and figurative--that drive our deepest impulses, disturb our most precious memories, and haunt the passages of our daily lives are present in this collection of sublime meditations on the unbelievable, the coincidental, and the apparitional. Often containing reflections on the art of storytelling, Caryl Pagel's essays blend memoir, research, and reflection, and are driven by a desire to observe connections between the visual and the invisible. The narrator of Pagel's essays explores each enigma or encounter (a football coach's faked death, the faces of women walking, historical accounts of hallucinations, a city's public celebration gone wrong) as an intellectual detective ascending a labyrinthine tower of clues in pursuit of a solution to an unreachable problem: always curious, and with a sense of profound wonder.

Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a sprawling, highly associative consideration of the ways in which the observed material world recalls us to larger narrative and aesthetic truths. Interspersed with documentary-style photographs, Pagel's first collection of prose is a radiant, obsessive investigation into the mysteries at the center of our seemingly mundane lives.


Author: Caryl Pagel
ISBN-10: 1573661864
ISBN-13: 9781573661867
Publisher: F2c
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/06/2020