How to Live Now or Never: Essays and Experiments 2005-2013

How to Live Now or Never collects exploratory and poetic works as a companion to Alejandro de Acosta's first book, The Impossible, Patience. The two perform a dyadic acrobatic maneuver around the empty space where freedom, imagination, and possibility could exist in textual, temporal, and interpersonal relationships. Whereas The Impossible, Patience was serious play around nihilism and language, How to Live is a surreal anti-thesis “in the form of paradoxes, defending precisely the claims that seem most impossible or disagreeable to maintain."