{"id":73596,"date":"2019-03-20T20:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T02:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=73596"},"modified":"2019-03-20T20:15:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T02:15:09","slug":"wednesday-march-27-2019-leanne-shapton-is-at-off-square-books-with-guestbook-ghost-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wednesday-march-27-2019-leanne-shapton-is-at-off-square-books-with-guestbook-ghost-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, March 27, 2019 &#8211; LEANNE SHAPTON is at Off Square Books with &#8220;Guestbook: Ghost Stories&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&#8220;Shapton combines found and original visuals with unsettling, evocative stories to capture the sensation of what it feels like to try to remember a dream upon waking.&#8221; &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Harper&#8217;s Bazaar<\/em><br><br>One of our most imaginative writers and artists explores the visitations that haunt us in the midst of life, and reinvents the very way we narrate experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence. A series of ghosts appear at their former bedsides, some distraught, some fascinated, to witness their unfamiliar occupants. A woman returns from a visit to Alcatraz with an uncomfortable feeling. The spirit of a prisoner has attached himself to you, a friend tells her. He sensed the sympathy you had for those men. In more than two dozen stories and vignettes, accompanied by an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images,&nbsp;<em>Guestbook&nbsp;<\/em>beckons us through the glimmering, unsettling evidence that marks our paths in life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leanne Shapton\u00a0<\/strong>is an artist and author of several books, including\u00a0<em>Swimming Studies\u00a0<\/em>(winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography),\u00a0<em>Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris<\/em>, and a coauthor of the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>-bestselling\u00a0<em>Women in Clothes<\/em>. She is also the cofounder of J&amp;L Books, a nonprofit publisher of art and photography books. 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