5 Books on Dena Yago’s Shelf
ARTnews profiles artist and writer Dena Yago—also a cofounder of the “trend forecasting” collective K-HOLE, which coined the term “normcore”—and notes her focus on the aesthetics of everyday late-capitalist life, from discarded Amazon bags to shifting meanings of words like “capacity.” The article is published on the occasion of her new book, That Figures: Selected Writings, released this month by After 8 Books, and asks her to name five influential books from her shelf. Among those discussed are Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook (which Yago says she read when she turned 30), Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate (about working at Amazon, written in the second person), and Alenka Zupančič’s The Odd One In: On Comedy (which she read after college and connects to her interest in how comedy exposes systemic instability).
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