SHORTLISTED FOR THE QWF MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONTHE GLOBE 100 THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mindampamp10Thirty years ago a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after theyd turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.ampamp10Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virginia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolfampamp8217s A Room of Oneampamp8217s Own as a touchstone this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of oneampamp8217s own at the centre of our idea of a literary life.ampamp10How central is the room And what happens once we get one Do we inhabit our rooms Or do the rooms contain us Blending memoir prose tweets poetry and criticism Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind and from a very private life of the mind to a public life of the page and from a life of the page into a life in the Academy the Internet and on social media.ampamp34With Virginia Woolf alongside them Queyras journeys through rooms literal and figurative complicating and deepening our understanding of what it means to create space for oneself as a writer. Their hardwon language challenges us to resist any glib associations of Woolfampamp8217s famous ampamp8216roomampamp8217 with an easy freedom.