by Olivia Laing
While I was working on Everybody I won a Windham Campbell prize. Hard to express the difference cold hard cash makes in a writer’s life. Thank you to Michael Kelleher and Megan Eckerle, for all your support, and to Donald and Sandy too.
Ideas in this book have been evolving since the 1990s, and arise out of discussions over many years. My thanks, in no particular order, to Tony Gammidge, who introduced me to the work of both Ana Mendieta and Philip Guston, Lili Stevens, with whom I’ve been talking about bodies for decades now, Tom de Grunwald and Tamora James, treetop companions, Bob Dickinson, Sherri Wasserman, David Dernie, Rich Porter, Carl Williamson, Mary Manning, Carole Villiers, Nick Davies (always), Nick Blackburn, Alex Halberstadt, David Adjmi, Brian Dillon, Emily LaBarge, Jon Day, Ali Smith, Esme Joffe, Jack Partlett.
To my teachers, back in the herbal day: Peter Conway and Julian Barker.
Much gratitude to Rebecca May Johnson, who translated Edith Jacobson’s prison diaries from the German for me.
For help with image permissions, thank you to Aileen Corkery and Emily Rothrum at Hauser and Wirth, Jackie Burns at the Getty Museum, and Amanda Wilkinson.
Thank you to the staff of the National Library of Medicine, where the Aurora Karrer Reich collection is housed, to Nellie Thomson at the Brill Library, and to Will McMorran, who discussed the Marquis de Sade with me in the slightly incongruous setting of the BL cafe.
To my family: Denise Laing, Kitty Laing, Peter Laing, Tricia Murphy, thank you all.
And to Ian Patterson, of course: librarian, poet, interlocutor, love.
Also by Olivia Laing
To the River
The Trip to Echo Spring
The Lonely City
Crudo
Funny Weather
Image credit: Orgone accumulator (Topfoto)
Copyright © 2021 by Olivia Laing
First American Edition 2021
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Names: Laing, Olivia, author.
Title: Everybody : a book about freedom / Olivia Laing.
Description: First American edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021000768 | ISBN 9780393608779 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780393608786 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Human body—Social aspects. | Body image. | Human rights movements. | Freedom.
Classification: LCC HM636 .L44 2021 | DDC 323—dc23
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