Occasional desire : essays / David Lazar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lazar, David, 1957-

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire.

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

David Lazar is a professor of creative writing and English at Columbia College Chicago and the editor of <I>Hotel Amerika</I>. His works include <I>The Body of Brooklyn</I>, <I>Powder Town</I>, and <I>Essaying the Essay</I>.<BR><DIV></DIV>

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents ""; ""UNFAMILIAR ESSAYS""; ""Calling for His Past""; ""Manhattan Cab""; ""Across the River""; ""The City Always Speaks: London,New York, San Francisco""; ""The Coat""; ""OSTENSIBLE OCCASIONS""; ""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""; ""THE ART OF SURVIVAL""; ""On Dating""; ""Death, Death, Death, Death, Death""; ""On Gifts""

""Self-Portrait: Francis Bacon�s Deformity""""On the Art of Survival: North by Northwest""; ""Acknowledgments""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781496209566

1496209567

9780803248519

0803248512

OCLC:

851972537