My 1980s and Other Essays View By Wayne Koestenbaum
| Title | : | My 1980s and Other Essays |
| Author | : | Wayne Koestenbaum |
| Format | : | ebook |
| Page | : | 336 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0374709769 |
Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper literate collection of personal and critical essaysWayne Koestenbaum has been described as an impossible lovechild from a late night, drunken three way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag Bidoun In My 1980s and Other Essays, a collection of extravagant range and style, he rises to the challenge of that Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper literate collection of personal and critical essaysWayne Koestenbaum has been described as an impossible lovechild from a late night, drunken three way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag Bidoun In My 1980s and Other Essays, a collection of extravagant range and style, he rises to the challenge of that improbable description.My 1980s and Other Essays opens with a series of manifestos or, perhaps appropriately, a series of impassioned disclosures, intellectual and personal It then proceeds to wrestle with a series of major cultural figures, the author s own lodestars and lodestones literary John Ashbery, Roberto Bola o, James Schuyler , artistic Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol , and simply iconic Brigitte Bardot, Cary Grant, Lana Turner And then there is the personal the voice, the style, the flair that is unquestionably Koestenbaum It amounts to a kind of intellectual autobiography that culminates in a string of passionate calls to creativity arguments in favor of detail and nuance, and attention a defense of pleasure, hunger, and desire in culture and experience Koestenbaum is perched on the cusp of being a true public intellectual his venues are mainstream than academic, his style is eye catching, his prose unfailingly witty and passionate, his interests profoundly wide ranging and popular My 1980s should be the book that pushes Koestenbaum off that cusp and truly into the public eye
Humiliation
Andy Warhol
The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire
Hotel Theory
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Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper literate collection of personal and critical essaysWayne Koestenbaum has been described as an impossi
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