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My 1980S And Other Essays
Delivery time: 8-12 business days (International)
Wayne Koestenbaum Returns With A Zesty And Hyperliterate Collection Of Personal And Critical Essays On The 1980S, Including Essays On Major Cultural Figures Such As Andy Warhol And Brigitte Bardot.Wayne Koestenbaum Has Been Described As An Impossible Lovechild From A Latenight, Drunken Threeway 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 Manifestosor, Perhaps More 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 Bolao, James Schuyler), Artistic (Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol), And Simply Iconic (Brigitte Bardot, Cary Grant, Lana Turner). And Then There Is The Personalthe Voice, The Style, The Flairthat 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 Intellectualhis Venues Are More Mainstream Than Academic, His Style Is Eyecatching, His Prose Unfailingly Witty And Passionate, His Interests Profoundly Wideranging And Popular. My 1980S Should Be The Book That Pushes Koestenbaum Off That Cusp And Truly Into The Public Eye.
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