{"product_id":"the-professor-a-sentimental-education-9780061670923","title":"The Professor: A Sentimental Education","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.\" --Susan Sontag \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes \u003cem\u003eThe Professor and Other Writings\u003c\/em\u003e: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the devastation and beauty of early love. James Wolcott, contributing writer to \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e, calls Terry Castle a \"Jedi knight of literary exploration and lesbian scholarship,\" and \u003cem\u003eThe Professor and Other Writings\u003c\/em\u003e \"a greatest-hits package of show-stopping monologues and offhand-genius riffs.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Professor and Other Writings\u003c\/em\u003e is a hilarious and heartbreaking exploration of gender, identity, and sexuality in the grand tradition of such feminist luminaries as Susan Sontag, Camille Paglia, and Joan Didion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCastle, Terry:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTerry Castle was once described by Susan Sontag as the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today. She is the author of seven books of criticism, including \u003cem\u003eThe Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (1993) and \u003cem\u003eBoss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women and Sex\u003c\/em\u003e (2002). Her anthology, \u003cem\u003eThe Literature of Lesbianism\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award in 2003. She lives in San Francisco and is Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565323850002,"sku":"9780061670923","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_49758d32-8e42-4546-b1bc-cf3b5af48ec7.jpg?v=1731884724","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-professor-a-sentimental-education-9780061670923","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}