{"product_id":"books-my-1980s-other-essays-by-wayne-koestenbaum","title":"My 1980s \u0026 Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eon the 1980s, including essays on major cultural figures such as Andy Warhol and Brigitte Bardot.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Wayne Koestenbaum has been described as \"an impossible lovechild from a late-night, drunken three-way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag\" (\u003ci\u003eBidoun\u003c\/i\u003e). In \u003ci\u003eMy 1980s and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of extravagant range and style, he rises to the challenge of that improbable description.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMy 1980s and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMy 1980s\u003c\/i\u003e should be the book that pushes Koestenbaum off that cusp and truly into the public eye.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507119284497,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780374533779.jpg?v=1778121510","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/books-my-1980s-other-essays-by-wayne-koestenbaum","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}