Figure it Out
Essays

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- Release Date: 05/05/2020
- Publisher: Counterpoint Press LLC
- Classification: Nonfiction
- Classification: Nonfiction
- Series: N/A
- Format: Unabridged edition
- Genre: Essays & Travelogues, LGBTQIA
- Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
- Read by: Pete Cross
- Duration: 372 minutes
- Run Time: 372 minutes
- Audio Library Digital - 9781662039652
- Audio Retail Digital - 9781662040252
- 5 Audio CD(s) - 9781662038457
- 1 Audio MP3 CD(s) - 9781662040856
- Playaway - 9781662041280
Audio Library Digital
10/20/2020
372 minutes
9781662039652
Audio Retail Digital
10/20/2020
372 minutes
9781662040252
Audio CD
10/20/2020
5 Audio CD
372 minutes
9781662038457
Audio MP3 CD
10/20/2020
1 Audio MP3 CD
372 minutes
9781662040856
Playaway
10/20/2020
372 minutes
9781662041280
Description:
Through a collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and assignments that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and acts of playful making, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. A subway passenger’s leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for “stranger.” Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend’s stinky feet. Koestenbaum dreams about a handjob from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg’s squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. He directly proposes assignments to listeners: “Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. Call it Sabrina.” “Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.” “Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness...Reimagine doing the laundry as having an orgasm, and reinterpret orgasm as not a tiny experience, temporally limited, occurring in a single human body, but as an experience that somehow touches on all of human history.” Figure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play from “one of the most original and relentlessly obsessed cultural spies writing today” (John Waters).Audiobook
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