Somebody with a little hammer: essays
"Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades, on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal...from the explosive date rape debates of the '90s to the ubiquitous political adultery of the '00s, from Anton Chekhov to Celine Dion. Here is Mary Gaitskill the essayist:...
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| Summary: | "Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades, on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal...from the explosive date rape debates of the '90s to the ubiquitous political adultery of the '00s, from Anton Chekhov to Celine Dion. Here is Mary Gaitskill the essayist: witty, direct, penetrating to the core of each issue, personality, or literary trope (On Updike: "It is as if [he] has entered a tiny window marked 'Rabbit,' and, by some inverse law, passed into a universe of energies both light and dark, expanded and contracted, infinite and workaday." On Elizabeth Wurtzell: "If this kooky, foot-stamping, self-loathing screed is meant to be, as it claims, a defense of 'difficult women,' i.e. women who 'write their own operating manuals' . . . all I can say is, bitches best duck and run for cover.") Gaitskill writes about the ridiculous and poetic ambition of Norman Mailer, about the socio-sexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace, and, in the deceptively titled "Lost Cat," about how power and race can warp the most innocent and intimate of relationships. Appearing in chronological order, the essays offer their thoughts and reactions, always with the heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which we value the author's fiction"... |
| Physical Description: | vii, 272 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780307378224 |
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A Lot of Exploding Heads
On Reading the Book of Revelation 3
The Trouble with Following the Rules
On “Date Rape/ “Victim Culture, and
Personal Responsibility io
A Lovely Chaotic Silliness
A Review of The Fermata by Nicholson Baker 27
Toes n Hose
A Review of From the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hose
by Elmer Batters, and Nothing But the Girl, edited by
Susie Bright and Jill Posener 30
Crackpot Mystic Spirit
A Review of Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan s Basement Tapes
by Greil Marcus 33
Bitch
A Review of Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel 35
Dye Hard
A Review of Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates 4I
Mechanical Rabbit
A Review of Licks of Love by John Updike
VI
CONTENTS
IVe Seen It All
Thoughts on a Song by Björk 53
And It Would Not Be Wonderful to Meet a Megalosaurus
On Bleak House by Charles Dickens 58
Remain in Light
On the Talking Heads 71
Victims and Losers: A Love Story
Thoughts on the Movie Secretary 76
The Bridge
A Memoir of Saint Petersburg 85
Somebody with a Little Hammer
On Teaching Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov 105
Enchantment and Cruelty
On Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie in
Worshipping the Overcoat
An Election Diary 114
This Doughty Nose
On Norman Mailer s An American Dream and
The Armies of the Night 120
Lost Cat
A Memoir 131
I See Their Hollowness
A Review of Cockroach by Rawi Hage 180
Lives of the Hags
A Review of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic 185
Leave the Woman Alone!
On the Never-Ending Political Extramarital Scandals 191
Masters Mind
A Review of Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk
199
CONTENTS
VII
Imaginary Light
A Song Called Nowhere Girl” 205
Form over Feeling
A Review of Out by Natsuo Kirino 210
Beg for Your Life
On the Films of Laurel Nakadate 215
The Cunning of Women
On One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan al-Shaykh 222
Pictures of Lo
On Covering Lolita 229
The Easiest Thing to Forget
On Carl Wilson s Let’s Talk About Love 235
She s Supposed to Make You Sick
A Review of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 241
Icon
On Linda Lovelace 248
That Running Shadow of Your Voice
On Nabokov s Letters to Vera 261
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 27I
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