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Falling upwards :

0465078001 (alk. paper)

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Falling upwards :

[Book]

essays in defense of the imagination /

Lee Siegel

New York :

Basic Books,

c2006

xxii, 337 p. ;

22 cm

Includes index

pt. 1. The imagination and its obstacles. Harry Potter and the fear of not flying -- A book of virtues for the right-thinking left -- Seize the day job : sacrificing Saul Bellow on the altar of one's own career -- Persecution and the art of painting -- pt. 2. Faking it. Prophets of profit : how artists slyly critique their wealthy patrons -- From Stalin to SoHo -- Barbara Kinsolver's icy virtue -- Television and the Pope -- Updike's Bech -- The new king of irony -- pt. 3. Love me tonight? D.H. Lawrence and the romantic option -- Who is Carrie Bradshaw really dating? -- The gay science : queer theory, literature, and the sexualization of everything -- Eyes wide shut : what the critics failed to see in Kubrick's last film -- Garciá Lorca and the flight from desire -- pt. 4. Life in the palm of art's hand. Dante and the subversive ego -- Sunday's with the Sopranos -- A writer who is good for you -- Bernard Malamud and the comprehending heart -- The second coming of Richard Yates -- Chekhov's "Cheap white bone."

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"Sex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut, Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Jane Austen in the present, J. K. Rowling - nothing escapes Lee Siegel's incandescent eye. Siegel possesses an intellectual range and independent perspective unmatched by his peers. Falling Upwards brings together the best of Siegel's essays, all of them rich with the trademark wit and intelligence that have won him many friends and more than a few enemies.

In these essential writings, Siegel deftly uses the occasion of a book, film, painting, or television show not merely to appraise, but to make sense of life in a way that is more defiant of impoverished cultural "norms" than most contemporary artistic expression."--BOOK JACKET.

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