- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions. He sets his work apart as both in the essay and of the essay by throwing himself into the form's pastāinterviewing or speaking to past masters and turning over rocks to find lost gems of the essay form.
I'll Be Your Mirror further expands the dimensions of contemporary nonfiction writing by concluding with a series of aphorisms. Surreal, comical, and urban moments of being, they are part Cioran, part Kafka, and part Lenny Bruce. These are accompanied by Heather Frise's illustrations, whose looking-glass visions of motherhoodāfunny and grotesqueāmeet the vision of the aphorist in this most unusual nonfiction book.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: Brigadoon Bowling
- Ann; Death and the Maiden
- When Iām Awfully Low
- Lollipop Is Mine
- Brushes with the Great and Not-So-Great
- Brigadoon Bowling
- Five Autobiographical Fragments, or She May Have Been a Witch
- Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman
- Part 2: To the Reader, Sincerely
- To the Reader, Sincerely
- Being a Boy-Man
- Hydra
- A Conversation with Robert Burton, Author of Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), vox es, praeterea nihil
- Meet Montaigne! (with Patrick Madden)
- The Typologies of John Earle
- Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily
- Part 3: Rock, Paper, Scissors, God: aphorismics
- Rock, Paper, Scissors, God
- Mothers, Etc.
- Source Credits
- About David Lazar
- About Heather Frise