I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych

Name: I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych
SKU: 978-1-62557-713-9
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Nina Boutsikaris

Publication Date: May 1, 2019

Description

Listen to Nina Boutsikaris read from I’M TRYING TO TELL YOU I’M SORRY: AN INTIMACY TRIPTYCH // Watch the captioned video on the BLP YouTube Channel

Praise

No one is safe from Nina Boutsikaris’ gaze in this book-she looks at the world and people around her just as intensely as she turns her gaze inward, questioning her desires, her actions, and asking what it means to see something for what it truly is. I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry pairs art with experience, youth with introspection, and gender with power-the dance between these topics makes for an utterly absorbing read.

-Chelsea Hodson

I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry is not so much a memoir as an experience. Be prepared to fully immerse yourself in a world that’s both gorgeous and dangerous, led by a guide who has found herself at the outermost edges of what language can bear. I’ve never read anything quite like it. Nina Boutsikaris is a compelling new voice in creative nonfiction.

-Brenda Miller

An intelligent and radical rumination on gender, sexuality, fear, and romance. A topical and evocative book for anyone with a brain.

-Chloe Caldwell

About the Author

Nina Boutsikaris

I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych was the winner of the 2021 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Small Press Distribution Bestseller. Nina Boutsikaris' essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Third Coast, Hobart, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere, and were listed among the Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2019 and Best American Essays 2016. Her short memoir “Surrender” was anthologized in the book The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction. Other awards and honors include The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Peter Taylor Fellowship, Redivider's Beacon Street Prize for Nonfiction, and Writer-in-Resident at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. She has taught at The University of Arizona, Eugene Lang College, Catapult, and Gotham Writers Workshop. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley and is at work on a novel.

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