{"product_id":"forty-one-false-starts-paperback","title":"Forty-one False Starts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanet Malcolm\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJanet Malcolm's \u003ci\u003eIn the Freud Archives \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Journalist and the Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction--as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one \"false starts,\" or serial attempts to capture the essence of the painter David Salle, which becomes a dazzling portrait of an artist. Malcolm is \"among the most intellectually provocative of authors,\" writes David Lehman in \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \"able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, in \u003ci\u003eForty-one False Starts\u003c\/i\u003e, Malcolm brings together essays published over the course of several decades (largely in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReview of Books\u003c\/i\u003e) that reflect her preoccupation with artists and their work. Her subjects are painters, photographers, writers, and critics. She explores Bloomsbury's obsessive desire to create things visual \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eliterary; the \"passionate collaborations\" behind Edward Weston's nudes; and the character of the German art photographer Thomas Struth, who is \"haunted by the Nazi past,\" yet whose photographs have \"a lightness of spirit.\" In \"The Woman Who Hated Women,\" Malcolm delves beneath the \"onyx surface\" of Edith Wharton's fiction, while in \"Advanced Placement\" she relishes the black comedy of the Gossip Girl novels of Cecily von Zeigesar. In \"Salinger's Cigarettes,\" Malcolm writes that \"the pettiness, vulgarity, banality, and vanity that few of us are free of, and thus can tolerate in others, are like ragweed for Salinger's helplessly uncontaminated heroes and heroines.\" \"Over and over,\" as Ian Frazier writes in his introduction, \"she has demonstrated that nonfiction--a book of reporting, an article in a magazine, something we see every day--can rise to the highest level of literature.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Nonfiction Books of 2013\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Malcolm\u003c\/b\u003e (1934- 2021) was the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eIn the Freud Archives\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journalist and the Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo Lives: Alice and Gertrude\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2008 PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, and \u003ci\u003eForty-One False Starts\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book and a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. She was a longtime staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984050716973,"sku":"9780374534585","price":24.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/ZStMUTdYeXQzd05hSlU0ZU1yL3dkdz09.webp?v=1776081617","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/forty-one-false-starts-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}