Intelligence For Dummies: Essays And Other Collected Writing

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Nombre: Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: ZE Books

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Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the readers life. --Michael Chabon

A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last 50 years of cultural life, captured through a vivid selection of OBriens own writings on music to fashion to downtown art and, just as importantly and unexpectedly, the political temperature of America.

Glenn OBrien collaborated with visual artists, writers, fashion houses, and musicians throughout his almost 50-year career. Intelligence for Dummies gathers Glenn OBriens essays, aphorisms and tweets, to create a portrait of the artist as cultural bellwether, complimented by artwork and photographs from his collaborators. A full color, hardcover edition, Intelligence for Dummies is a deeply personal aperçu into Patti Smith and Jean Michel Basquiats New York, and the culture of money that ensued. It also reveals OBriens incisive and prescient understanding of Americas political culture, and of our current president.

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"The smartly designed book features critical reviews, profiles, and essays alongside poems, freeform meditations, diatribes, tweets, and works of fiction. Intelligence for Dummies is not just a mélange of OBriens greatest (and quirkiest) hits, however; the rounded selection pointedly reflects his virtuosity with form and the imaginative fluency he had within the medium of words." Eugenie Dalland, Los Angeles Review of Books

"The real keepers in this volume are precisely detailed and often moving evocations of his friends: Warhol, Basquiat, Nan Goldin, Richard Prince, James Nares. He conveys them in ways that are strangely difficult to quote, since they are contingent on chatter, circumstance, anecdote, and location, and evoke by accretion." Luc Sante, New York Review of Books

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"Glenn OBrien was, depending on how you look at it, either the first or the last real man: sensitive, cultured, astute, funny as fuck, gentle, with style to die for. Whether you think he inspired the best or is the end of a certain lineage, you still know he was rare. I was lucky to know him and feel luckier still to have his writing to remind me what a blessing his voice was." --Lena Dunham

About the Author

Glenn OBrien (1947-2017) was one of the most widely read and influential magazine writer-editors of the last fifty years and was a hall-of-fame copy - writer and creative director whose ads are ingrained in popular culture. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, OBrien studied at Georgetown University and Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. After college, he joined Andy Warhols Interview Magazine, which he helped shape over his 20-year association. He wrote regular columns in publications including Artforum, GQ, Harpers Bazaar, Paper, Purple, and Spin, and was widely read on the subjects of art, fashion, and music. Beloved as GQs Style Guy, his witty advice column was syndicated in GQ editions around the world. OBriens wrote dozens of books, including 2011s best-selling How to Be A Man, published in six countries.

Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College.
He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger.
He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year's Best Music Writing 2002, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine.
His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's and many other periodicals.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9781733540100
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 1733540105
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta dura
Editorial: ZE Books
Titulo del libro: Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: O'Brien, Glenn
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 336
ISBN-13: 9781733540100
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9781733540100