The Believer “Tonight I'm Someone Else is precise about the most mysterious things, cool, and thoughtfully exploratory. From the title on, this book draws upon a concentrated attention to self that leads continually toward something new.”
Brooklyn Rail “It’s a lesson in essay craft to study how Hodson builds these stacks of art. She’s a writer’s writer, a lover’s writer, an artist’s writer, and a dreamer’s writer.”
Chicago Review of Books “No one writes like Chelsea Hodson. These essays are a welcome battering ram to the chest.”
Largehearted Boy “On a line level, Tonight I'm Someone Else might be the book of the year. These essays are lyrically precise and impeccably formed.”
Literary Hub “This essay collection is shape-shifting, and Hodson’s voice has got me under a spell of sorts. I am making my way through it and going from awe to exhilaration to discomfort, and back to awe.”
Longreads “There’s just something about Hodson’s lines that demands furious underlining and exclamation points in the margins.”
Nylon “The experience of reading these essays is akin to careening down a desert road on a bike with no brakes while a perfectly full moon hangs plump.”
The Washington Post “Hodson’s transfixing style marks a memorable first collection.”
The White Review “Tonight I’m Someone Else is suffused with hunger and desire, vulnerability and violence – all delivered with calm, bare-faced aplomb.”