Tonight I'm Someone Else

"The collection’s greatest strength may be Hodson’s self-awareness. Writing of her desire to be 'fractional,' or not wholly seen, she joins a body of women writers whose subject is their own self-destruction as a means of escaping domestic ennui . . . lucid insights, and Hodson’s transfixing style, mark a memorable first collection."—The Washington Post

"Hodson’s essays have such a sexy drama to them—and ultimately it’s the romance of just getting through life; the passion that comes from being a wholly alert woman and living to tell about it."—Miranda July

"Chelsea Hodson catalogs and explores all the weird kinks you develop while looking for love in your 20s: excessive longing, self-sabotage, self-delusion, self-obsession, self-deletion, and lying all the time . . . Hodson digs deep beneath the surface of her loves to draw out life-sustaining truths trapped as stray thoughts, poignant details, and well-wrought memories."—The Stranger

"Chelsea Hodson tests herself against her desires, grapples with their consequences, and presents a surgically precise account of what they were to her."—Sarah Manguso, author of 300 Arguments and The Two Kinds of Decay

"Her essays are a specialized artform where poetry meets philosophy. They reflect on the gruesome side of being a woman in the excellent tradition of Joan Didion and Sylvia Plath."—Atticus Lish, author of Preparation for the Next Life

"This is overall a unique collection about being an artist and a woman in a world that doesn’t always value either."—Booklist