"A book that really should not be skipped."--Joumana Khatib, The New York Times

"Emily LaBarge renders trauma as a lived experience, and so Dog Days is not merely a trauma study, of which there are many, but also a unique literary experience. Dog Days is rich in ideas. A fascinating work, unusually conceived and written, disturbing, honest, and profound."--Lynne Tillman

"Dog Days is a book about the relentless presentness of the past and the philosophical vertigo that follows a harrowing life-altering event. What emerges is a profound and necessary inquiry into how we assemble a self from the fragments of what we've read, what we've seen, and what we've survived."--Anne Boyer, author of The Undying

"Emily LaBarge is always intellectually agile and emotionally capacious."--Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk

"Embracing disorientation as a formal strategy, Dog Days locates a sympathy between traumatic experience and the practice of writing itself...[LaBarge] demonstrates that trauma entails its own mystical mode of reading, in which words and images become imbued with supra-rational connection and significance. "--Daisy Lafarge, Frieze

"An expansive, invigorating and compassionate book. LaBarge analyses a wide-range of art and literature with a deftness, boldness and generosity that reminded me of the best Susan Sontag. I look forward to pressing this into the hands of all my friends."--Rebecca Birrell, author of This Dark Country

"An extraordinary work of writing; a profound odyssey of bringing into the shared space of language what dwells beyond its margins. The writing illuminates architectures of pain, repetition, and shifting temporalities, in a singular light that somehow manages to make the great fiction, poetry, film, art, it reflects upon even richer. A book that has such intensely stunning passages that I miss as soon as I have finished reading them."--Tai Shani

"Where the worst shocks of life threaten to undermine thought, imagination and literary form, Dog Days patiently, ferociously, insists on new ways to think, imagine and write. I plan to re-read it every time I feel my mind go soft. I found it a challenge, an inspiration--a very cool book."--Amber Husain

"An expansive and beautiful meditation on trauma and its styles, but also how reading and looking and gathering and writing, as a practice of co-creation with the perceptual, sustains our existence--this too is lived experience."--Lucy Mercer