Flower
Fitzcarraldo Editions · Paperback · October 17, 2025
An anti-memoir, a list, a listless blur –Flower is a highly original, moving and absurd book by one of the most influential artists of his generation, formally inventive and disturbingly of our time. ‘I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.’ Flower is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories and no-brainer observations, treating personal truth as unavailable – something that must be made up and convincing.
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- Who it’s for
- A wry, unsettled play with confession, where the ordinary and the profound keep trading places.
- Themes
- Personal truth as constructed, Everyday likes and memories, Contrasts between ease and pain
- Genres
- Artists' Lives, Personal Memoirs, Essay Collections
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An anti-memoir, a list, a listless blur –Flower is a highly original, moving and absurd book by one of the most influential artists of his generation, formally inventive and disturbingly of our time. ‘I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.’
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Flower is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories and no-brainer observations, treating personal truth as unavailable – something that must be made up and convincing. Taking cues from confessional literature, his daughter’s improvised games, poor internet writing and shitty AI, Ed Atkins, in his first work of non-fiction, equivocates between inanity and divinity, ease and pain, sentimentality and sterility.
Truth, With Static
A wry, unsettled play with confession, where the ordinary and the profound keep trading places.
Come here for
- Likes, dislikes, memories, and small admissions
- Personal truth treated as something made, not recovered
Expect
- A list-like blur between ease and pain
- An absurd, moving mix of sentiment and sterility
Where it sits
| Essay Collections | 56% |
|---|---|
| Personal Memoirs | 39% |
| Artists' Lives | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Artist Essays
- Personal Memoirs
- Essay Collections
- Authors
- Ed Atkins
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Published
- October 17, 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Personal truth as constructed · Everyday likes and memories · Contrasts between ease and pain
- Reading lane
- Artist Essays