Hotel Theory is two books in one: a meditation on the meaning of hotels, and a dime novel (
Hotel Women) featuring Lana Turner and Liberace. Typical of Wayne Koestenbaumās invigoratingly inventive style, the two books one fiction, one nonfiction run concurrently, in twin columns, and the articles a,ā an,ā and theā never appear. The nonfiction ruminations on hotels are divided into eight dossiers, composed of short takes on the presence of hotels in the authorās dreams as well as in literature, film, and history. Guest stars include everyone from Oscar Wilde to Marilyn Monroe.
Hotel Theory gives (divided) voice to an aesthetic of hyperaesthesia, of yearning. It is an oblique manifesto, the place where writing disappears. A new mode of theorizing in fiction, in fragment, through quotation and palimpsest arises in this dazzling work.
This book title, Hotel Theory, ISBN: 9781933368696, by Wayne Koestenbaum, published by Catapult (July 12, 2007) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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