The Professor and Other Writings, Terry Castle
The Professor and Other Writings, Terry Castle
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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

Synopsis

“[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.” —Susan Sontag From one of America’s most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: 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 Vanity Fair, calls Terry Castle a “Jedi knight of literary exploration and lesbian scholarship,” and The Professor and Other Writings “a greatest-hits package of show-stopping monologues and offhand-genius riffs.” The Professor and Other Writings 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.

About Terry Castle

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Buck on June 13, 2010

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

Goodreads review by Ariel on February 16, 2012

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

Goodreads review by Sara on April 05, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Sara on August 26, 2015

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

Goodreads review by Viet on April 09, 2019

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

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