No Sense in Wishing
Essays
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Product details:
- Publisher Atria Books
- Date of Publication 14 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781668051856
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 212x139x25 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
An essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney: a personal and analytical look at his home city of Baltimore, music from throughout the global Black diaspora, and the traditions that raised him, for readers of Hanif Abdurraqib, Kiese Laymon, and Isaac Fitzgerald.
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“Among the most profound and dazzling debuts I've ever read.” &&&8212;Kiese Laymon, award-winning author of Heavy: An American Memoir
An essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a personal and analytical look at his home city of Baltimore, music from throughout the global Black diaspora, and the traditions that raised him.
There are moments throughout our lives when we discover an artist, an album, a film, or a cultural artifact that leaves a lasting impression, helping inform how we understand the world, and ourselves, moving forward. In No Sense in Wishing, Lawrence Burney explores these profound interactions with incisive and energizing prose, offering us a personal and critical perspective on the people, places, music, and art that transformed him.
In a time when music is spearheading Black Americans’ connection with Africans on The Continent, Burney takes trips to cover the bubbling creative scenes in Lagos and Johannesburg that inspire teary-eyed reflections of self and belonging. Seeing his mother perform as the opening act at a Gil Scott-Heron show as a child inspires an essay about parent-child relationships and how personal taste is often inherited. And a Maryland crab feast with family facilitates an assessment of how the Black people in his home state have historically improvised paths for their liberation.
Taking us on a journey from the streets of Baltimore to the concert halls of Lagos, No Sense in Wishing is a kaleidoscopic exploration of Burney’s search for self. With its gutsy and uncompromising criticism alongside intimate personal storytelling, it’s like an album that hits all the right notes, from a promising writer on the rise.
“For the last few years, I thought I was in need of a new cultural critic to cleave to—until I read Lawrence Burney’s work and realized I wasn’t in search of a critic at all. Instead, I was looking for more of a cultural ambassador. Someone wrestling, not with what they hate but with what they love, and trying to display these touchpoints of adoration, no matter how complicated they may be, for the world to see. That&&&39;s what No Sense In Wishing is. A series of billboards. Better yet, a collection of love letters with Burney at the helm, not just as pen and hand, but also as the heart unabashedly beating this new rhythm. This is truly a gift.” —Jason Reynolds, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and
