My 1980S & Other Essays [Audiobook] download free by Wayne Koestenbaum
- Listen audiobook: My 1980S & Other Essays
- Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
- Release date: 2013/12/2
- Publisher: FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780374533779
- Rating: 9.85 of 10
- Votes: 738
- Review by: Sutton Neumann
- Review rating: 8.51 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/20
- Duration: 3H58M51S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MP4, FLAC, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG4 (compression RAR, ZIP, TAR, TAR.BZ)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 33 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M15S (6.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 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 Bolaño, 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 more 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Gay Studies (Gay Men), Literary Essays, Society & Culture: General
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.47 USD
- Dimensions: 130x189x23mm
- Weight: 245g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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