Sad Sack: Collected Writing (2nd edition)

Sad Sack is a book of collected writing by Sophia Al-Maria, taking feminist inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’; opposing ‘the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic.’ Encompassing more than a decade of work, Sad Sack tracks Al-Maria’s speculative journey as a writer, from the first seed of her ‘premature’ memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking dry. – Book Works  This is the second edition of the 2019 publication (now out of print), which includes new writing, an introduction by Taylor Le Melle, and contributions by Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Laura Cugusi, and Simone Fattal. Sophia Al-Maria (b. 1983 in Tacoma, WA; lives and works in London) is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker. The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, organized her solo exhibition Not My Bag in 2023/24. Al-Maria has