Olivia Laing, "Everybody"

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement.
Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century-among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.
Purchase Book Here: www.politics-p...
Laing is in conversation with Sarah Schulman, a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is the author of more than twenty works of fiction, nonfiction, and theater, and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films.
----------------------------------------------------Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE--------------------------------------------------------------
Visit us online at: www.politics-pr...
Follow us on Twitter: / politicsprose
Follow us on instagram: / politicsprose
Like us on Facebook: / politicsandprose
Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter:
politics-prose...
Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.