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Nobody's looking at you : essays / Janet Malcolm.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 289 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374279493
  • 0374279497
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Part I. Nobody's looking at you -- Performance artist -- The book refuge -- Three sisters -- The émigré -- The storyteller -- Part II. The art of testifying -- Special needs -- Comedy Central on the mall -- Pandora's click -- Part III. Dreams and Anna Karenina -- Socks -- The master writer of the city -- Women at war: a case of sexual harassment -- It happened in Milwaukee -- Sisters, lovers, tarts, and friends -- "A very sadistic man" -- Remember the ladies -- "I should have made him for a dentist".
Summary: "A collection of previously published essays and profiles by the legendary critic Janet Malcolm. The title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said to her, "Nobody's looking at you." But in every piece in this volume, Malcolm looks closely and with impunity at a broad range of subjects, from Donald Trump's TV nemesis Rachel Maddow, to the stiletto-heel-wearing pianist Yuju Wang, to "the big-league game" of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In an essay called "Socks," the Pevears are seen as the "sort of asteroid [that] has hit the safe world of Russian Literature in English translation," and in "Dreams and Anna Karenina," the focus is Tolstoy, "one of literature's greatest masters of manipulative techniques." Nobody's Looking at You also includes "Pandora's Click," a brief, cautionary piece about e-mail etiquette that was written in the early two thousands, and that reverberates--albeit painfully--to this day."--provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. A 2019 NPR Staff Pick.

"Malcolm is always worth reading; it can be instructive to see how much satisfying craft she brings to even the most trivial article." --Phillip Lopate, TLS

Janet Malcolm's previous collection, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers , was "unmistakably the work of a master" ( The New York Times Book Review ). Like Forty-One False Starts , Nobody's Looking at You brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly from The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books .

The title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said to her, "Nobody's looking at you." But in every piece in this volume, Malcolm looks closely and with impunity at a broad range of subjects, from Donald Trump's TV nemesis Rachel Maddow, to the stiletto-heel-wearing pianist Yuju Wang, to "the big-league game" of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In an essay called "Socks," the Pevears are seen as the "sort of asteroid [that] has hit the safe world of Russian Literature in English translation," and in "Dreams and Anna Karenina," the focus is Tolstoy, "one of literature's greatest masters of manipulative techniques." Nobody's Looking at You concludes with "Pandora's Click," a brief, cautionary piece about e-mail etiquette that was written in the early two thousands, and that reverberates--albeit painfully--to this day.

"A collection of previously published essays and profiles by the legendary critic Janet Malcolm. The title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said to her, "Nobody's looking at you." But in every piece in this volume, Malcolm looks closely and with impunity at a broad range of subjects, from Donald Trump's TV nemesis Rachel Maddow, to the stiletto-heel-wearing pianist Yuju Wang, to "the big-league game" of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In an essay called "Socks," the Pevears are seen as the "sort of asteroid [that] has hit the safe world of Russian Literature in English translation," and in "Dreams and Anna Karenina," the focus is Tolstoy, "one of literature's greatest masters of manipulative techniques." Nobody's Looking at You also includes "Pandora's Click," a brief, cautionary piece about e-mail etiquette that was written in the early two thousands, and that reverberates--albeit painfully--to this day."--provided by publisher.

Part I. Nobody's looking at you -- Performance artist -- The book refuge -- Three sisters -- The émigré -- The storyteller -- Part II. The art of testifying -- Special needs -- Comedy Central on the mall -- Pandora's click -- Part III. Dreams and Anna Karenina -- Socks -- The master writer of the city -- Women at war: a case of sexual harassment -- It happened in Milwaukee -- Sisters, lovers, tarts, and friends -- "A very sadistic man" -- Remember the ladies -- "I should have made him for a dentist".

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