Hotel

Joanna Walsh is a writer based in England. Her work has been published by Granta, Dalkey (Best European Fiction 2015), Salt (Best British Short Stories 2014 and 2015), Tate, and others. Her books include Fractals (2013), and Vertigo (The Dorothy Project, 2015). She reviews for The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The National (UAE). She is fiction editor at 3:AM Magazine, and runs #readwomen, described by the New York Times as “a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers.” She is also an illustrator.

Walsh’s writing has intellectual rigour and bags of formal bravery ... Hotel is a boldly intellectual work that repays careful reading. Its semiotic wordplay, circling prose and experimental form may prove a refined taste, but in its deft delineation of a complex modern phenomenon — and, perhaps, a modern malaise — it’s a great success.

• Part I. Hotel Haunting1. Hotel HauntingPart II. Fragments from a Hysterical Suitcase2. Hotel Freud3. Marriage Postcards4. Hometel 5. Hotel Diary6. In A German Pension 7. The Talking Cure8. Hotel Marx 9. Postcards from 26 HotelsNotesAcknowledgementsIndex