{"product_id":"three-six-five-prompts-acts-divinatnions-by-lucy-ives","title":"THREE SIX FIVE: PROMPTS, ACTS, DIVINATNIONS by Lucy Ives","description":"\u003csection class=\"siglio-copy\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are 365 exercises for writing in this book, but it is not simply a book of writing exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethree six five\u003c\/em\u003e is a “how-to” book of questions—not answers. It is an ars poetica of expanding possibility, a tarot deck of acts instead of images, a book of bending hours, a diary of contemplation and imagination, an antidote to consumption in the shape of care and attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese prompts, acts, and divinations—in alchemical combinations with new drawings by Nick Mauss—invite both aspiring and experienced writers to learn and unlearn, to mine memory and forgetting, to enter impossible spaces and create new ways of telling time, to inhabit multiple, other, and conflicting perspectives, to discover the elasticity of language and its constraints, to write by drawing, walking, listening, and even by being distracted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile this is an inexhaustible compendium for writing, it is also an enduring reservoir for those who have no desire to be(come) a writer. Many exercises take the form of play, encourage collaboration with friends, strangers, and non-human beings, and operate off the page, often in the world, in the spirit of discovery rather than result. All intend to nurture and cultivate possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracing the lineage of Yoko Ono’s \u003cem\u003eGrapefruit\u003c\/em\u003e and Raymond Queneau’s \u003cem\u003eExercises in Style\u003c\/em\u003e, novelist, poet, and critic Lucy Ives offers encouragement, candor, and a deep appreciation for the vagaries, wonders, and challenges of a writing life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"all-caps\"\u003eLUCY IVES\u003c\/span\u003e is a novelist and critic. Her most recent books, both from Graywolf Press, are \u003cem\u003eLife Is Everywhere: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e and A\u003cem\u003en Image of My Name Enters America: Essays\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2024 Vermont Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Ives’s work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eArtforum\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e, among other publications. A 2026 Guggenheim Fellow (congrats, Lucy!) and a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, she has taught at Brown, Cornell, and New York Universities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"siglio-header\"\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"siglio-copy\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"all-caps\"\u003eNICK MAUSS\u003c\/span\u003e is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, dance, performance, ceramics, and other media. He is also a writer. His work has been included in gallery and museum exhibitions worldwide, including solo shows at Kunsthalle Basel, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and at 303 Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58422122971520,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/4524\/8002\/files\/threesixfivefrontcover.jpg?v=1783688503","url":"https:\/\/londonbookarts.org\/products\/three-six-five-prompts-acts-divinatnions-by-lucy-ives","provider":"London Centre for Book Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}