Lee Siegel, Author . Viking $27.95 (418p) ISBN 978-0-670-89461-1
This second novel by Siegel (Love in a Dead Language) lives up to its subtitle: it's organized as a game of Snakes and Ladders, with each chapter representing a square on the game board; the reader can choose between a traditional reading, from...
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Lee Siegel, Author . Basic $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-465-07810-3
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n this book of collected television criticism, Siegel channel surfs and rides every wave, and no genre of programming escapes his analysis. Siegel, a senior editor at the New Republic
, plumbs game shows, reality programming, cartoons, sitcoms,...
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Lee Siegel, Author . Random/Spiegel & Grau $22.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-3855-2265-6
Siegel, a controversial former NewRepublic.com blogger and past Slate.com art critic, provides a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the Internet affects culture and...
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Lee Siegel, Author . Univ. of Chicago $22.50 (227p) ISBN 978-0-226-75705-6
Mix a history of Spanish conquistadors in the New World with a porny pulp tale, and the result is this entertaining novel. The premise: Juan Ponce de Leon, the venerable 16th-century Spanish conquistador, is alive and living in Florida thanks to the
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Lee Siegel, Author University of Chicago Press $18 (264p) ISBN 978-0-226-75689-9
Ancient Sanskrit tales of horror meet Bram Stoker's Dracula by way of an elderly storyteller in postcolonial India: Siegel, a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii, has assembled this bizarre but brilliant novel from sources spanning the
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Lee Siegel, Author University of Chicago Press $59 (264p) ISBN 978-0-226-75688-2
Ancient Sanskrit tales of horror meet Bram Stoker's Dracula by way of an elderly storyteller in postcolonial India: Siegel, a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii, has assembled this bizarre but brilliant novel from sources spanning the
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Lee Siegel, Author University of Chicago Press $25 (408p) ISBN 978-0-226-75697-4
""General observations, copulation, seduction, marriage, adultery, prostitutes, and erotic arcana,"" the seven subjects treated by the Kamasutra, are also the motifs of Siegel's whimsical farce. Presented as the unscholarly annotated version of the...
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Lee Siegel, Author Basic Books $31.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-465-07800-4
Is the increasingly permeable border between art and life leading to a world in which the arts can no longer create meaningful original experiences? Celebrated critic Lee Siegel tackles this question and others in a collection of essays that restore
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Lee Siegel, Author University of Chicago Press $69 (464p) ISBN 978-0-226-75686-8
Siegel, a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii and an amateur magician, explores magic in India, a place that is for him a ``cauldron of illusions.'' He enters the magicians' world by eating with them, performing his own tricks for them
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Lee Siegel. Harper, $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-176603-9
"We spend our days searching for a way to be serious," writes critic Siegel (Falling Upwards) in this shallow investigation of seriousness from its essential elements ("Attention, Purpose, and Continuity") and Renaissance roots to how it has been...
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Lee Siegel. Univ. of Chicago, $18 trade paper, (264p) ISBN 978-0-226-18532-3
This experimental work by Siegel (Net of Magic) combines nonfiction and fiction in an attempt both to tell the tale of hypnosis’s relation to India and to hypnotically induce a vivid experience for those who partake. The short stories interspersed...
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Lee Siegel. Yale, $25 (184p) ISBN 978-0-300-17445-8
Born in October 1890, Julius Henry Marx was the third of five surviving sons, and he would grow up to become Groucho, the most famous of the Marx Brothers. Drawing heavily on previous biographies and other studies of the vaudevillian, film star,...
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Lee Siegel. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-17805-5
In this powerful, jarring memoir, author and critic Siegel (Against the Machine) painstakingly maps the bitter familial legacies that shaped him. Suspended between parents with artistic aspirations—an ineffectual, self-effacing jazz pianist father...
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Lee Siegel, read by Joe Barrett. Tantor Audio, unabridged, 5 CDs, 6 hrs., $32.99 ISBN 978-1-5159-0248-5
Much has been said about the vaudevillian Grouch Marx (1890–1977), the third-born and most famous of the five Marx Brothers, but Siegel manages to add new insight into the entertainer. He explores the philosophical questions underpinning his subject,
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Lee Siegel. Yale Univ, $26 (160p) ISBN 978-0-30024-426-7
Critic Siegel (Against the Machine) offers an invigorating reflection on the nature and value of disagreement. Arguments are central to human imagination, he writes, and a “true argument” consists of two aspects: “an intense concern for the matter...
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