Bibliograph

Nobody's looking at you, essays, Janet Malcolm

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Nobody's looking at you, essays, Janet Malcolm

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

Nobody's looking at you

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1086608795

Responsibility statement

Janet Malcolm

Sub title

essays

Summary

"A collection of previously published essays and profiles by the legendary critic Janet Malcolm. The title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said to her, "Nobody's looking at you." But in every piece in this volume, Malcolm looks closely and with impunity at a broad range of subjects, from Donald Trump's TV nemesis Rachel Maddow, to the stiletto-heel-wearing pianist Yuju Wang, to "the big-league game" of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In an essay called "Socks," the Pevears are seen as the "sort of asteroid [that] has hit the safe world of Russian Literature in English translation," and in "Dreams and Anna Karenina," the focus is Tolstoy, "one of literature's greatest masters of manipulative techniques." Nobody's Looking at You also includes "Pandora's Click," a brief, cautionary piece about e-mail etiquette that was written in the early two thousands, and that reverberates--albeit painfully--to this day."--provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Part I. Nobody's looking at you -- Performance artist -- The book refuge -- Three sisters -- The émigré -- The storyteller -- Part II. The art of testifying -- Special needs -- Comedy Central on the mall -- Pandora's click -- Part III. Dreams and Anna Karenina -- Socks -- The master writer of the city -- Women at war: a case of sexual harassment -- It happened in Milwaukee -- Sisters, lovers, tarts, and friends -- "A very sadistic man" -- Remember the ladies -- "I should have made him for a dentist"

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