{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam-paperback","title":"The Autobiography of H. LAN Thao Lam - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLana Lin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSituated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam \u003c\/i\u003eis an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her 1933 \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e, Gertrude Stein invented a new literary form by narrating her own story from the perspective of her partner, blurring the lines between portrait and self-portrait. Almost a century later, experimental filmmaker and artist Lana Lin has resurrected Stein's project to tell a different story of queer love, life, and artistic collaboration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt heart a candid chronicle of her partner Lan Thao's life journey from Việt Nam during the war, and her own troubled history as a gender-queer Taiwanese American, Lin draws in subjects as varied as photography, cancer, tropical fruit, 9\/11, and Eve Sedgwick's eyeglasses, weaving an intimate landscape of living that is also a critical investigation of race and gender.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLana Lin\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, artist, and filmmaker based in New York and Connecticut. She is the author of the book \u003ci\u003eFreud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer\u003c\/i\u003e and film and video works including \u003ci\u003eThe Cancer Journals Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e. Her various works and collaborative projects (with Lan Thao Lam as \"Lin + Lam\") have exhibited at festivals and art and educational spaces throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, and New Museum, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Gasworks, London; the Taiwan International Documentary Festival and Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute, New Taipei City; Arko Art Center, Korean Arts Council, Seoul; and the 2018 Busan Biennale. Having had three years of psychoanalytic training before dropping out, she sometimes still dreams of becoming a psychoanalyst one day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44809400451174,"sku":"9781948980296","price":25.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/jCavmdrmE_9781948980296.webp?v=1771570503","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}