{"product_id":"occasional-desire-david-lazar-9780803246386","title":"Occasional Desire: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his new collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eOccasional Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, David Lazar meditates on random violence and vanished phone booths, on the excessive relationship to jewelry that links Kobe Bryant and Elizabeth Taylor, on Hitchcock, Francis Bacon, and M. F. K. Fisher. He explores, in his concentrically self-aware, amused, and ironic voice, what it means to be occasionally aware that we are surviving by our wits, and that our desires, ulterior or obvious, are what keep us alive. Lazar also turns his attention on the essay itself, affording us a three-dimensional look at the craft and the art of reading and writing a literary form that maps the world as it charts the peregrinations of the mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLazar is especially interested in the trappings of memory, the trapdoors of memory, the way we gild or codify, select, soften, and self-delude ourselves based on our understanding of the past. His own process of selection and reflection reminds us of how far this literary form can take us, bound only by the limits of desire and imagination.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Lazar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803246382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803246386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.61w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Lazar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058197065983,"sku":"9780803246386","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb36cd71-f5a0-459a-be91-dfabcd6a5429.jpg?v=1685051192","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/occasional-desire-david-lazar-9780803246386","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}