{"product_id":"occasional-desire-essays-paperback","title":"Occasional Desire: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Lazar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his new collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eOccasional Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, David Lazar meditates on random violence and vanished phone booths, on the excessive relationship to jewelry that links Kobe Bryant and Elizabeth Taylor, on Hitchcock, Francis Bacon, and M. F. K. Fisher. He explores, in his concentrically self-aware, amused, and ironic voice, what it means to be occasionally aware that we are surviving by our wits, and that our desires, ulterior or obvious, are what keep us alive. Lazar also turns his attention on the essay itself, affording us a three-dimensional look at the craft and the art of reading and writing a literary form that maps the world as it charts the peregrinations of the mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLazar is especially interested in the trappings of memory, the trapdoors of memory, the way we gild or codify, select, soften, and self-delude ourselves based on our understanding of the past. His own process of selection and reflection reminds us of how far this literary form can take us, bound only by the limits of desire and imagination.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Lazar is a professor of creative writing and English at Columbia College, Chicago and the founding editor of \u003ci\u003eHotel Amerika\u003c\/i\u003e. His works include \u003ci\u003eAfter Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Body of Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePowder Town\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEssaying the Essay\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8.5 x 5.61 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761347297568,"sku":"9780803246386","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/48df16c0adcc7b2e92bd62076eac4c2d.webp?v=1780205170","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/occasional-desire-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}