Full name: Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings

Author: Lawrence Weschler Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Essays, Non Fiction, Art Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679777403 0679777407

There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanning twenty years of his career and the full range of his concerns-which is to say, practically everything. Only Lawrence Weschler could reveal the connections between the twentieth century's Yugoslav wars and the equally violent Holland in which Vermeer created his luminously serene paintings. In his profile of Roman Polanski, Weschler traces the filmmaker's symbolic negotiations with his nightmarish childhood during the Holocaust. Here, too, are meditations on artists Ed Kienholz and David Hockney, on the author's grandfather and daughter, and on the light and earthquakes of his native Los Angeles. Haunting, elegant, and intoxicating, Vermeer in Bosnia awakens awe and wonder at the world around us. Similar books: Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus Nobody's Looking at You by Janet Malcolm The Patch by John McPhee Feel Free by Zadie Smith In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace Vintage Didion by Joan Didion Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell Table of Contents by John McPhee When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan Step Across This Line by Salman Rushdie The Hunter Gracchus by Guy Davenport Not-Knowing by Donald Barthelme My Ideal Bookshelf by Thessaly La Force Unpacking My Library by Leah Price Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler