New Michigan Press

Flat-Pack New Michigan Press

Zadie Smith said "Early on in the crisis, I picked up Marcus Aurelius and for the first time in my life read his Meditations not as an academic exercise, nor in the pursuit of pleasure, but with the same attitude I bring to the instructions for a flat-pack table-I was in need of practical assistance." Anney Bolgiano's Flat-Pack takes this exercise to its logical conclusion, collaging actual IKEA Flat-Pack instructions with text from Meditations, creating something completely new.