Hotel Theory is two books in one: a meditation on the meaning of hotels, and a dime novel (Hotel Women) featuring Lana Turner and Liberace. Typical of Wayne Koestenbaum’s invigoratingly inventive style, the two books — one fiction, one nonfiction — run concurrently, in twin columns, and the articles “a,” “an,” and “the” never appear. The nonfiction ruminations on hotels are divided into eight dossiers, composed of short takes on the presence of hotels in the author’s dreams as well as in literature, film, and history. Guest stars include everyone from Oscar Wilde to Marilyn Monroe. Hotel Theory gives (divided) voice to an aesthetic of hyperaesthesia, of yearning. It is an oblique manifesto, the place where writing disappears. A new mode of theorizing — in fiction, in fragment, through quotation and palimpsest — arises in this dazzling work.
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Strange formal synthesis,
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Every since "The Queen's Throat," Wayne Kostenbaum has been writing compellingly. You may not "enjoy" reading "Hotel Theory," but you won't be able to stop. It is an experement in form and tone and signification. Bravo WK.
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Hotel Women, Baby Helena, Lana Turner, Hotel Theory, Observation Point, Moonshine Beach, Hotel Washington, New York, Ditmas Boulevard, Solly Freund, Walter Benjamin, San Clemente, Miss Turner, Dolores Street, Beverly Hills, Marx Brothers, Joseph Cornell, Marianne Moore, Grand Hotel, Little Edie, Sebastian Melmoth, Daisy Miller, Toreador Hall, Las Vegas, Oscar Wilde New!
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