{"product_id":"nobodys-looking-at-you-essays-9781250251084","title":"Nobody's Looking at You: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice. A 2019 NPR Staff Pick.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Malcolm is always worth reading; it can be instructive to see how much satisfying craft she brings to even the most trivial article.\" --Phillip Lopate, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet Malcolm's previous collection, \u003ci\u003eForty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, was \"unmistakably the work of a master\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). Like \u003ci\u003eForty-One False Starts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNobody's Looking at You\u003c\/i\u003e brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly from \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said to her, \"Nobody's looking at you.\" But in every piece in this volume, Malcolm looks closely and with impunity at a broad range of subjects, from Donald Trump's TV nemesis Rachel Maddow, to the stiletto-heel-wearing pianist Yuju Wang, to \"the big-league game\" of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In an essay called \"Socks,\" the Pevears are seen as the \"sort of asteroid  that] has hit the safe world of Russian Literature in English translation,\" and in \"Dreams and Anna Karenina,\" the focus is Tolstoy, \"one of literature's greatest masters of manipulative techniques.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNobody's Looking at You \u003c\/i\u003econcludes with \"Pandora's Click,\" a brief, cautionary piece about e-mail etiquette that was written in the early two thousands, and that reverberates--albeit painfully--to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250251084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Janet Malcolm","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648724070556,"sku":"9781250251084","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_df86ea7d-4330-477a-b04b-625de292e561.jpg?v=1603870846","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/nobodys-looking-at-you-essays-9781250251084","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}