{"product_id":"worthy-of-the-event-an-essay-9781964322995","title":"Worthy of the Event: An Essay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMove over Michel de Montaigne, there's a new girl in town\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s, Vivian Blaxell takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australia to Japan, to Hawai'i to Mexico, to heretofore unmapped regions of the mind. In seven devastatingly intelligent parts, her essay covers a vast range in time and space -- from the arson of a Japanese temple to a transformative encounter with a coral reef, from Nietzsche and Hegel to Indigenous metaphysics, from a perplexing relationship with a beautiful man to the unknowable minds of animals. Fleshy and philosophical, searching and exalted, utterly distinctive and assured, \u003ci\u003eWorthy of the Event\u003c\/i\u003e belatedly establishes Vivian Blaxell as one of the major writers of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Littlepuss Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781964322995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296","brand":"Vivian Blaxell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45078868721845,"sku":"9781964322995","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b0c8dd2f-4ac5-4d1f-9610-4cd5dc55be02.jpg?v=1738681930","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/worthy-of-the-event-an-essay-9781964322995","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}