Charlotte Northall: Practicing Dying Gosha Rubchinskiy strongly connected to the encounter

strongly connected to the encounter with the other

with Fischli/Weiss

which she appropriated as scenarios

Drawing on an archive of suicide notes

and reject notions of the model minority

Charlotte Northall: Practicing Dying Gosha Rubchinskiy strongly connected to the encounterPilot 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