Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039324346X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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“It is fashionable today to mourn the paucity of public intellectuals in America. Forster, he writes with stunning force and beautiful lucidity.” (Janet Malcolm)“An adventurous critic and essayist of cascading impact… Kirsch’s smart and piquant essays articulate reasons “to be grateful for literature,” even as his whitewater title essay confronts us with the mad futility of our devotion to books.” (Donna Seaman - Booklist)“Kirsch’s writing is rarely overly zesty, it’s lucid, forceful, and clear throughouthe doesn’t wa
Forster, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith. M. In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin to novelists including E. In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last eight years in the New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Kirsch shows how literature can illuminate questions of meaning, ethics, and politics, and how those questions shape the way we take pleasure in art. M. A collection of essays from a “great poet-critic-intellectual” (Daily Beast).Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute…a critic of the very first order" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). Hopkins: "Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone." So shines literature, in these unflinchingly bold and provocati
inspiring Paul Apelgren This book made me want to write, to take part in the discourse, and to read everything ever written. Kirsch's series of essays are sequenced perfectly. The ideas bounce off each other and get bigger, better, more idiosyncratic, and more inspiring the longer the book goes on. If only all criticism coul. "Very reflective and thought provoking. Kirsch has real depth" according to Helen S.. Very reflective and thought provoking. Kirsch has real depth and appreciation for the issues artists and writers face concerning the meaning of their work.
He is a also columnist for Tablet and a contributor to the New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker. . He lives in New York. Adam Kirsch is a poet, literary critic, and the director of the master’s program in Jewish studies at Columbia University