| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 338 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"In this collection of essays, cultural critic and acclaimed writer Wayne Koestenbaum exposes all that provokes, intimidates, heartens, and arouses us in matters of style, celebrity, obscenity, and art." "From reflections on the rigors of a day spent with Melanie Griffith ("Melanie Time") to an ode to the healing powers of a black Prada suit ("Diary of a Suit") to moving meditations on the importance of reading ("Why I Read"), this volume is an exploration of culture and identity in America."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Dress and undress -- A brief history of cleavage -- Fashions of 1971 -- Diary of a suit -- Thrifting -- Diana's dresses -- Men's underwear -- The new male nudity -- Obscentiy -- The Aryan boy -- "My" masculinity -- Darling's prick -- Masochism, a masque -- M/orality -- Obscenity: a celebration -- Stars -- Celebrity dreaming -- The Elizabeth Taylor puzzle -- Melanie time -- 200 women -- Audrey and her sisters -- Listening to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf -- The real Dawn Upshaw -- My evening with Alec Baldwin -- My ride with Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu -- Enrico Caruso's son -- A fan's apostasy -- The locomotive empress: 12 improvisations -- Nostrils open to everything -- Power and aesthetics -- An unwritten poem by Heinrich Heine -- The food groups -- On civilizations' discontents -- Reisepass -- August hyperaesthesia -- Design -- Envy -- Bees -- Beds -- White wine -- On paparazzi -- Warhol's toiletries -- In memory of my feelings -- Mortifying Mapplethorpe -- Smell of night on handkerchief -- My women of Dada -- What Alice knows -- Notes on not now -- Reading -- Logorrhea -- The poetics of indifference -- A brief defense of private poetry -- Stein is nice -- Why I read. |
| Subject |
Essays.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst00915437
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Koestenbaum, Wayne. Cleavage. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2000 (OCoLC)606261084 |
| ISBN |
0345434609 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780345434609 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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