Charlotte Northall: Practicing Dying Gosha Rubchinskiy Edgar Heap of Birds

Edgar Heap of Birds

Academic Studies Press

As the artist states in the introduction: “This book as a finished product will have a material permanence that contradicts the actual impermanence of the art-work

and reject notions of the model minority

Charlotte Northall: Practicing Dying Gosha Rubchinskiy Edgar Heap of BirdsPilot Press, 2025, softcover, 355 pages, 13 x 19 cm Practicing Dying is a literary anti memoir documenting life in a Zen Buddhist monastery in rural France where the protagonist, a woman in her late twenties, attempts to overcome chronic drug addiction and mental illness. Broken and severely unwell, our protagonist arrives at the monastery from London: starving, drug addicted and disillusioned, having exhausted every conventional treatment route