![]() ![]() ![]() Call it Sabrina.” “Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.” “Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness … Reimagine doing the laundry as having orgasm, and reinterpret orgasm as not a tiny experience, temporally limited, occurring in a single human body, but as an experience that somehow touches on all of human history.” Figure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play. He directly proposes assignments to readers: “Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. Wayne dreams about a handjob from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg’s squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. ![]() He’s copped to being an obsessive erotomane. He’s copped to Googling rivals to find unseemly tidbits. A subway passenger’s leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for “stranger” Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend’s stinky feet. In a career spanning over two decades, Wayne Koestenbaum has copped to a lot. In his new nonfiction collection Figure it Out: Essays, Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. Figure it Out: Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum (Published by Soft Skull) ![]()
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