Occasional desire [electronic resource] : essays / David Lazar.
Lazar, David, 1957-
2013
PS3612.A973 O27 2013eb
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Title Occasional desire [electronic resource] : essays / David Lazar.
Author Lazar, David, 1957-
Uniform Title Essays. Selections
ISBN 9780803248519 electronic bk
9780803246386 (pbk.)
Imprint Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (218 p.)
Call Number PS3612.A973 O27 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 814/.6
Summary In his new collection of essays, Occasional Desire, David Lazar meditates on random violence and vanished phone booths, on the excessive relationship to jewelry that links Kobe Bryant and Elizabeth Taylor, on Hitchcock, Francis Bacon, and M. F. K. Fisher. He explores, in his concentrically self-aware, amused, and ironic voice, what it means to be occasionally aware that we are surviving by our wits, and that our desires, ulterior or obvious, are what keep us alive. Lazar also turns his attention on the essay itself, affording us a three-dimensional look at the craft and the art of reading and writing a literary form that maps the world as it charts the peregrinations of the mind.
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Calling for his past
Manhattan cab
Across the river
The city always speaks: London, New York, San Francisco
The coat
Occasional desire: on the essay and the memoir
Queering the essay
Reading "New Year's eve"
Playing ourselves: pseudodocumentary and persona
The useable past of M.F.K. Fisher: an essay on projects
On mentors
On dating
Death, death, death, death, death
On gifts
Self-portrait: Francis Bacon's deformity
On the art of survival: North by northwest.

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