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Humiliation (2011)

by Wayne Koestenbaum(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0312429223 (ISBN13: 9780312429225)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Picador

review 1: Lance Cleland (Editorial Assistant, Tin House Magazine): Maybe the subject matter just found me at the right moment, but Wayne Koestenbaum’s Humiliation stayed with me longer than any other nonfiction piece this year. Hardly a page went by without me taking pause to write something down in my notebook. Intimate without being self-serving, Koestenbaum has taken on a subject that is increasingly part of our cultural narrative and attacked it from both personal and historical vantage points, resulting in an addictive read. Not everyone will be on-board with his approach, but the results will have you thinking long after the book has been closed.
review 2: this is an awful lot of fun for a book about things that aren't fun in the slightest. kind of a cross betwee... moren roland barthes and john waters, veering back and forth from literature/philosophy to anecdotes about peeing your pants in elementary school. as you might imagine, some parts work better than others (i'm not sure a white guy needed to coin the phrase "jim crow gaze," for example), but there's something really approachable and forthcoming about it that evens out the rough edges. less

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