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Review: Night Rooms by Gina Nutt
Jan. 10th, 2022 07:51 pmNight Rooms: Essays by Gina Nutt is published by Two Dollar Radio.
Similar to Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House, Night Rooms is a collection of chapters that use stories (specifically horror in this case) as a lens for the author's experiences and feelings. And that's the last I'll compare the two.
There isn't a coherent story to Night Rooms, and indeed, the subheading is "Essays." The essays are numbered rather than titled, and discuss Nutt's experiences with death, suicide, assault, and fear, often referencing horror movies or shows, poetry, lectures, and other books. She doesn't name the movies, just describes what happens in them ("The girl sleeps" "Two teenagers make out" etc). The titles aren't as important as the events and how they relate to what she is trying to say.
Nutt's prose is lovely and poetic. Her chapters are broken up into smaller pieces, and she goes between fiction and reality frequently. The book deals heavily with grief and fear, and living with those things. I don't think I connected to the essays as much as I would have liked, but they were personal, and they were well-written. There is a bibliography and a works referenced section at the end.
Similar to Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House, Night Rooms is a collection of chapters that use stories (specifically horror in this case) as a lens for the author's experiences and feelings. And that's the last I'll compare the two.
There isn't a coherent story to Night Rooms, and indeed, the subheading is "Essays." The essays are numbered rather than titled, and discuss Nutt's experiences with death, suicide, assault, and fear, often referencing horror movies or shows, poetry, lectures, and other books. She doesn't name the movies, just describes what happens in them ("The girl sleeps" "Two teenagers make out" etc). The titles aren't as important as the events and how they relate to what she is trying to say.
Nutt's prose is lovely and poetic. Her chapters are broken up into smaller pieces, and she goes between fiction and reality frequently. The book deals heavily with grief and fear, and living with those things. I don't think I connected to the essays as much as I would have liked, but they were personal, and they were well-written. There is a bibliography and a works referenced section at the end.
