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In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions. He sets his work apart as both in the essay and of the essay by throwing himself into the form's past-interviewing or speaking to past masters and turning over rocks to find lost gems of the essay form.
I'll Be Your Mirror further expands the dimensions of contemporary nonfiction writing by concluding with a series of aphorisms. Surreal, comical, and urban moments of being, they are part Cioran, part Kafka, and part Lenny Bruce. These are accompanied by Heather Frise's illustrations, whose looking-glass visions of motherhood-funny and grotesque-meet the vision of the aphorist in this most unusual nonfiction book.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Brigadoon Bowling
Ann; Death and the Maiden
When I'm Awfully Low: On Singing
Lollipop Is Mine
Brushes with the Great and Not-So-Great
Brigadoon Bowling
Five Autobiographical Fragments, or She May Have Been a Witch
Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman
To the Reader, Sincerely
To the Reader, Sincerely
Being a Boy-Man
Hydra: I'll Be Your Mirror
A Conversation with Robert Burton, Author of Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), vox es, praeterea nihil
Meet Montaigne! (with Patrick Madden)
The Typologies of John Earle
Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the Interview with David Lazar and Mary Cappello
Rock, Paper, Scissors, God: aphorismics
Rock, Paper, Scissors, God
Mothers, Etc.
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