

The Professor and Other Writings
Author: Terry Castle
Narrator: Maggi-Meg Reed
Unabridged: 13 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 01/19/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Author: Terry Castle
Narrator: Maggi-Meg Reed
Unabridged: 13 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 01/19/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Terry 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 The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (1993) and Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women and Sex (2002). Her anthology, The Literature of Lesbianism, 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.
A ‘fag hag’ is a straight woman who enjoys the company of gay men. Even I know that. But what do you call a straight guy who digs lesbians? There’s got to be a slang term for that, right? Whatever it is, I think I might be one. Not that I have a lot of lesbian friends or anything, but at parties I t......more
I didn't finish this book. Normally I would feel the obsessive need to, but because it is a collection of essays I feel it's OK to put it down after having finished three and perhaps return to it later. I liked it, but not enough to read the essays in which the subject matter itself doesn't intrigue......more
Sain tämän ikuisuusprojektin viimein päätökseensä. Aloitin lukemisen viime lokakuussa aika lailla heti kirjan saatuani. Tänään viimeisiä sivuja lukiessani mietin, että syynä luku-urakan kestoon on ollut enemmän keskittymiskyvyn puute kuin itse teksti, sillä Castlen teksti soljuu kyllä kevyesti. Okei......more
The best memoir critique hybrid I have ever read. Ever will read. Ever. Could be mean, as Castle calls herself, if it weren’t so painfully honest and self-deprecating. Includes one very uncomfortable dinner with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, Susan Sontag dodging imaginary sniper fire on a boutique s......more
Interesting fact: when it was first published in hardcover, Terry Castle’s The Professor: A Sentimental Education was called The Professor and Other Writings (Harper Perennial). The paperback title alludes obviously to Flaubert’s novel, but it also suggests Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, wh......more