David Lazar

I'll Be Your Mirror (eBook, PDF)

Essays and Aphorisms

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions. He sets his work apart as both in the essay and of the essay by throwing himself into the form¿s past¿interviewing or speaking to past masters and turning over rocks to find lost gems of the essay form.I¿ll Be Your Mirror further expands the dimensions of contemporary nonfiction writing by concluding with a series of aphorisms. Surreal, comical, and urban moments of being, they are part Cioran, part Kafka, and part Lenny Bruce. These are accompanied by Heather Frise¿s illustrations, whose looking-glass visions of motherhood¿funny and grotesque¿meet the vision of the aphorist in this most unusual nonfiction book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496205209
• Artikelnr.: 55972044

Autorenporträt

David Lazar is a professor of creative writing and English at Columbia College Chicago. He is the editor of the journal Hotel Amerika and the author of several books, including Who’s Afraid of Helen of Troy: An Essay on Love and Occasional Desire: Essays (Nebraska, 2013). Heather Frise is a filmmaker, educator, and visual artist. She recently worked on the National Film Board of Canada’s Emmy award–winning Highrise.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments    
Brigadoon Bowling
Ann; Death and the Maiden    
When I’m Awfully Low: On Singing    
Lollipop Is Mine    
Brushes with the Great and Not-So-Great    
Brigadoon Bowling    
Five Autobiographical Fragments, or She May Have Been a Witch    
Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman    
To the Reader, Sincerely
To the Reader, Sincerely    
Being a Boy-Man    
Hydra: I’ll Be Your Mirror    
A Conversation with Robert Burton, Author of Anatomy of Melancholy (1621),
vox es, praeterea nihil    
Meet Montaigne! (with Patrick Madden)    
The Typologies of John Earle    
Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the
Interview with David Lazar and Mary Cappello    
Rock, Paper, Scissors, God: aphorismics    
Rock, Paper, Scissors, God    
Mothers, Etc.    
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