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    Lecture
    Lecture
    Lecture
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    Lecture

    By Mary Cappello

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    "[Cappello's] excellent new book-length essay, Lecture... at once defends the lecture and calls for holistic and creative improvements to the form."—The Atlantic

    In twenty-first century America, there is so much that holds or demands our attention without requiring it. Imagine the lecture as a radical opening.

    Mary Cappello's Lecture is a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Brimming with energy and erudition, it is an attempt to restore the lecture's capacity to wander, question, and excite. Cappello draws on examples from Virginia Woolf to Mary Ruefle, Ralph Waldo Emerson to James Baldwin, blending rigorous cultural criticism with personal history to explore the lecture in its many forms—from the aphorism to the note—and give new life to knowledge’s dramatic form.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTransit Books
    Release dateSep 8, 2020
    ISBN9781945492464
    Lecture
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    Mary Cappello

    Mary Cappello’s seven books of literary nonfiction include a Los Angeles Times bestselling detour on awkwardness, a lyric biography, and the mood fantasia Life Breaks In. Her most recent book, Lecture, a speculative manifesto, inaugurates Transit Books’ Undelivered Lecture Series. A former Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, she is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island.

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