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Hotel theory : 8 dossiers ; hotel women : 18 chapters / Wayne Koestenbaum.
LIBRA Rare PS3561.O349 H68 2007 Mathews copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koestenbaum, Wayne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turner, Lana, 1921-1995--Fiction.
- Turner, Lana.
- Liberace, 1919-1987--Fiction.
- Liberace.
- Liberace, 1919-1987.
- Turner, Lana, 1921-1995.
- Hotels.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)
- Koestenbaum, Wayne (autograph) (Mathews copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 174 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Distributed by Publishers Group West.
- Other Title:
- Hotel women : 18 chapters
- Hotel theory : eight dossiers
- Hotel theory : Eighteen chapters
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn : Soft Skull Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- "Hotel Theory" is two books in one: a meditation on the meaning of hotels, and a dime novel ("Hotel Women") featuring Lana Turner and Liberace. Typical of Wayne Koestenbaum' s invigoratingly inventive style, the two books - one fiction, one nonfiction - run concurrently, in twin columns, and the articles " a, " " an, " and " the" never appear. The nonfiction ruminations on hotels are divided into eight dossiers, composed of short takes on the presence of hotels in the author' s dreams as well as in literature, film, and history. Guest stars include everyone from Oscar Wilde to Marilyn Monroe. "Hotel Theory" gives (divided) voice to an aesthetic of hyperaesthesia, of yearning. It is an oblique manifesto, the place where writing disappears. A new mode of theorizing - in fiction, in fragment, through quotation and palimpsest - arises in this dazzling work.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.Copy has inscription: "For Harry Mathews -- more bulletins from Aigues-Mortes -- with gratitude for your many pleasurable and inspiring words -- yours, Wayne Koestenbaum, 16 July 2006".
- ISBN:
- 9781933368696
- 1933368691
- 1885586434
- 9781885586438
- OCLC:
- 148649670
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