{"product_id":"crumdr","title":"Crumbbook, by Delia Rainey","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eProse, chapbook, 28 pages, from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrumbbook\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventory of thoughts and visual experiences during a particular span of months of 2020, inside a particular span of neighborhood in Chicago. The project began as a strong desire to accumulate anything about real life, originally posted online as delia-writes-everyday-2020. Fragments trespass “the personal” and public exteriors. A diary written during the early pandemic, scattered bits connect to each other: crumbs sprayed onto park blankets, the binding of books, the shitty chromebook, a wicker chair on the stoop, and conversations with neighbors. Crumbs are the aftermath of consuming and forgetting amongst daily movement and action. \u003cem\u003eCrumbbook\u003c\/em\u003e wants to remember: here was my life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe act of writing down the world, walking around or staring off into space, derives from a need to solve anxiety -- to focus on immediate objects and archiving memories to feel real, to face mortality. Mundane boundaries and screens into other worlds become a main source of attention, such as windows, chain link fences, the internet, and the body in time. The public park appears as an area without barriers: a neighborhood natural space of leisure outside of capitalism, where “other people’s lives are real.” \u003cem\u003eCrumbbook\u003c\/em\u003e leans on lessons from New Narrative authors to communicate long-distance into the void during a time of viral disease, isolation, protests, and death. Change arrived to break us out of routine, and yet change [the future] cannot come soon enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrumbbook\u003c\/em\u003e is a lyrical and solitary notetaking to process the disappearance of the past, and a book about survival through connection. Friends and family appear in this book and this book is for them.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDelia Rainey is a writer and musician living in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago in 2021. Her prose and poems have been featured in \u003cem\u003eDIAGRAM\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHobart\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePeach Mag\u003c\/em\u003e, and many others. Ghost City Press released her mini chapbook \u003cem\u003ePrivate Again\u003c\/em\u003e in 2018. Her website can tell you more: deliarainey.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Delia Rainey","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556602429511,"sku":"CRUMDR","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556602462279,"sku":"CRUMDRe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/crumbfront.png?v=1697488677","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/crumdr","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}