{"product_id":"men-and-apparitions-isbn-9781593766795","title":"Men and Apparitions","description":"\u003cb\u003eToday we live in a “glut of images.” What does that mean? \u003ci\u003eMen and Apparitions \u003c\/i\u003etakes on a central question of our era through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photographs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe are the Picture People. I name us Picture People because most special and obvious about the species is, our kind lives on and for pictures, lives as and for images, our species takes pictures, makes pix, thinks in pix.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is behind the human drive to create, remake, and keep images from and of everything? What does it mean that we now live in a “glut of images?” \u003ci\u003eMen and Apparitions \u003c\/i\u003etakes on a central question of our era through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photographs. As Ezekiel progresses from a child obsessed with his family’s photo albums to a young and passionate researcher to a man devastated by betrayal in love, his academic fascinations determine and reflect his course, touching on such various subjects as discarded images, pet pictures, spirit mediums, the tragic life of his long-dead cousin the semi-famous socialite Clover Adams, and the nature of contemporary masculinity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaleidoscopic and encyclopedic, madcap and wry, this book that showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliant original novelist  but also as one of our most prominent thinkers on culture and visual culture today.\u003cb\u003eLynne Tillman\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Her novels are \u003ci\u003eHaunted Houses\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMotion Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCast in Doubt\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNo Lease on Life\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; \u003ci\u003eAmerican Genius, A Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMen and Apparitions\u003c\/i\u003e. Her nonfiction books include \u003ci\u003eThe Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967\u003c\/i\u003e, with photographs by Stephen Shore; \u003ci\u003eBookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWhat Would Lynne Tillman Do?\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her most recent short story collections are \u003ci\u003eSomeday This Will Be Funny\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Madame Realism\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol\/Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor\/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York. She lives in Manhattan with bass player David Hofstra.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304147538149,"sku":"NP9781593766795","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593766795.jpg?v=1767732550","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/men-and-apparitions-isbn-9781593766795","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}