
Figure It Out
Essays
Wayne Koestenbaum(Author)
Soft Skull Press
Published on 5. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-59376-595-8 (ISBN)
Description
A new collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and "assignments" that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and acts of playful making, from the mischievous, munificent, extraordinary mind of legendary public intellectual Wayne Koestenbaum
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
301 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59376-595-8 (9781593765958)
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Wayne Koestenbaum’s twenty books include Camp Marmalade, Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Humiliation, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A new edition of his first novel, Circus; Or, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, was published in 2019. He is a distinguished professor of English, French, and comparative literature at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. His website is waynekoestenbaum.com.