Occasional Desire: Essays

by David Lazar

Book Overview

In his new collection of essays, Occasional Desire, 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803246382
• ISBN13: 9780803246386
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"