The Globe and Mail
“Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose is transcendent and grounding.”
Vinson Cunningham
Chew-Bose sees unfailingly well. Too Much And Not the Mood is a stunning debut and . . . the work of a mature and individual mind, insistent on the personal as well as the coolly philosophical, crafted to be carried around in pockets for years to come.
Flare
Her narrative style weaves memories together with quotable prose in a way that feels like you’re stepping into her wandering mind.
Tavi Gevinson
A tremendous comfort and a transporting experience. Durga Chew-Bose’s stunning prose elevates the subtleties of existence to a sphere that is both otherworldly and painfully recognizable, offering a panoramic view of her whole heart and mind. She is sure to leave her readers stunned.
Brooklyn Magazine
We’ve yet to read a single thing by Chew-Bose . . . that doesn’t make us pause and consider what a gift she has with words. Here’s how you know something has been written by Durga: . . . it stays with you long after you’ve read it-like, forever.
Lena Dunham
Our generation has no one else like Durga Chew-Bose: a cultural critic who isn’t afraid to get personal, a romantic nostalgic with a lemony twist who applies her brilliance to life as it is currently lived. It’s a profound and glorious relief to encounter this book.
Saeed Jones
If people aren’t reading Durga Chew-Bose’s essays, they aren’t living life to the fullest.
NUVO Magazine
The prose is impressionistically dense, dazzling, quizzical, revealing, enamoured, and bitten with wonder.
From the Publisher
“Our generation has no one else like Durga Chew-Bose: a cultural critic who isn't afraid to get personal, a romantic nostalgic with a lemony twist who applies her brilliance to life as it is currently lived. It's a profound and glorious relief to encounter this book.” —Lena Dunham
“Durga Chew-Bose is our artist of beautifully distracted attention. Her sentences are like a procession of stills from the films she loves so much: each is a field of vivid color; a fraction as worthy of scrutiny as the whole; a delivery system for poetry as well as plot. To read Chew-Bose on Allen Iverson's annoyance, or on a premonitory twinge in the gut, or on the joys of living alone, is to be convinced—and, in the end, grateful—that good writing is a kind of sight. Chew-Bose sees unfailingly well. Too Much And Not the Mood is a stunning debut and, to me, the perfect paperback—it is the work of a mature and individual mind, insistent on the personal as well as the coolly philosophical, crafted to be carried around in pockets for years to come.” —Vinson Cunningham
“Too Much and Not the Mood is a tremendous comfort and a transporting experience. Durga Chew-Bose’s stunning prose elevates the subtleties of existence to a sphere that is both otherworldly and painfully recognizable, offering a panoramic view of her whole heart and mind. She is sure to leave her readers stunned.” —Tavi Gevinson
"If you admire Maggie Nelson’s ability to combine the personal and the academic into a thrilling new art form, Durga Chew-Bose will be your next favorite writer. Her remarkable debut essay collection touches on art and literature and pop culture, but also feels intensely intimate, filled with stunning insights both large in scale, and small." —Maris Kreizman, Vulture
"Chew-Bose is one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics, and her first collection of essays is bound to contain a wealth of her singularly lyrical and profound prose, as she meditates on topics like identity and art, as well as culture and belonging. [Too Much and Not the Mood is] a must-read" —Kristin Iversen, Nylon
