Notes to Self
Emilie Pine
2018 • Tramp Press
…it felt dangerous for me to write about my body, suggesting I’m an embodied person as opposed to an intellectual person. It was through the writing I realized those don’t have to be mutually exclusive. It’s not a binary: body/mind. The process of writing is like a debate on the page, and a very self-conscious one about my body and its relation to the way I live my life.
— Emilie Pine
Notes to Self
Emilie Pine
2018 • Tramp Press
…it felt dangerous for me to write about my body, suggesting I’m an embodied person as opposed to an intellectual person. It was through the writing I realized those don’t have to be mutually exclusive. It’s not a binary: body/mind. The process of writing is like a debate on the page, and a very self-conscious one about my body and its relation to the way I live my life.
— Emilie Pine
Description
Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century – its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary joy. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, she writes with radical honesty on birth and death, on the grief of infertility, on caring for her alcoholic father, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. Devastatingly poignant and profoundly wise – and joyful against the odds – Notes to Self offers a portrait not just of its author but of a whole generation.
Excerpts
Interviews
- The Guardian: Emilie Pine - ‘I Wrote the Essay I Needed to Read’
- Irish Independent: 'Parental Alcoholism, Infertility, Drug Use, Sexual Violence - No Subject Was Off Limits in Emilie Pine's Taboo-Shattering Essays'
- The New York Times: ‘"I Was Done With All the Silences" - How an Academic got Personal in Notes to Self'
- Five Dials: 'Speaking to Emilie Pine - The Author of Notes to Self on Blood, the Body and Beckett'
Prizes & Awards
Reviews
- Martina Evans, Irish Times
- Justine Jordan, The Guardian
- Lia Hynes, Image
- Lucy Scholes, Independent
- Dymphna Nugent, Writing.ie
- Catherine Taylor, Financial Times
- Susan McKay, Dublin Review of Books
- Miki Lentin, Mechanics Institute Review
Audio
- The Irish Times Women’s Podcast: ‘We Laughed About it Because it was the Only Way to Talk About it’
- My Roots are Showing: Emilie Pine Joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots are Showing
- London Review Bookshop Podcast: Emilie Pine and Katherine Angel
- PRH Audio: Notes to Self by Emilie Pine, Read by Emilie Pine
- Clare FM: Emilie Pine – Morning Focus Book Club and Interview
Video
- The Rick O'Shea Book Club: Shelf Analysis - Episode 45 - Emilie Pine
- West Cork Literary Festival: Sinéad Gleeson and Emilie Pine - Tuesday 16 July 2019
- Joe.ie: Emilie Pine - The Dangerous Life of a Wild Child, Surviving Loss and the Power of Storytelling
- IrishForeignMinistry: Irish Women in Literature - A conversation with Prof. Emilie Pine
- Image: Emilie Pine Full Interview
- Waterstones: Shelfie with Emilie Pine
