{"product_id":"twenty-eight-artists-and-two-saints-essays-9780307275769","title":"Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays","description":"Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, \u003ci\u003eSurvival in Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband's suicide, dictated the witty and classic \u003ci\u003eHow to Cook a Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e; and many other subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. \u003ci\u003eTwenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints\u003c\/i\u003e is indispensable reading on the making of art--and the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan Acocella is a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, where she covers dance and books. She has also written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of the critical biography \u003ci\u003eMark Morris; Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWilla Cather and the Politics of Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e. She edited the unexpurgated \u003ci\u003eDiary of Vaslav Nijinsky\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Lynn Garafola, \u003ci\u003eAndré Levinson on Dance\u003c\/i\u003e. Acocella was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50623087935762,"sku":"9780307275769","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b2c0b55-6226-40f1-a1dd-429855b1d653.jpg?v=1732591585","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/twenty-eight-artists-and-two-saints-essays-9780307275769","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}