{"product_id":"my-1980s-other-essays-9780374533779","title":"My 1980s \u0026 Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wayne Koestenbaum\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWayne 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKoestenbaum 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.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115769913495,"sku":"9780374533779","price":1719.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780374533779.webp?v=1767271051","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/my-1980s-other-essays-9780374533779","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}