Erin’s Reviews > Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire > Status Update

There’s a very long piece in here about the accessibility of archives (like historical documents) and it’s just another example of how it feels like this collection of essays is just a collection of whatever was submitted that was at all about disability, with no real regard for THE TITLE OF THE BOOK, quality, tone, subject, etc. This is a frustrating book.

There are a few good pieces in this book, but it should just be called “Disability Stories.” They want the word “intimacy” to mean more than it does to average people, and that’s fine, but then don’t put it in the title, or explain in a subtitle that you are using “intimacy” in a sense so broad that it just means “relationship.”

The quality of the pieces in this book varies wildly. Because of that, I do not think I would recommend it, unless the vast majority of the rest of the book is solid. It feels like a collection that did not have an editor with a specific enough vision for the quality, style, or topic—or maybe there were not enough submissions, and so all of them were included. I do not know.

Good, but not really what I wanted or expected.