Alyse Burnside

Alyse Burnside is a writer living in Brooklyn. They’re working on a collection of essays about queerness, work, and attachment. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere.

A man fights a losing battle with insomnia by counting sheep, 1940.

A Dispatch From the Land of the “Sleepless” A Dispatch From the Land of the “Sleepless”

A French writer’s memoir of her insomnia tries to understand how central sleep is to cultural and intellectual history.

Mar 28, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Alyse Burnside

Strange and Intimate Encounters With Kathy Acker Strange and Intimate Encounters With Kathy Acker

In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark revisits Acker’s work to fashion a different kind of literary theory—one more personal and erotic.

Jan 13, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Alyse Burnside

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