American Voyeur
Dispatches From the Far Reaches of Modern Life
$33.83
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2010
Summary
BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS, one of the most perceptive and interesting journalists writing today, takes us into some unusual precincts of American society in American Voyeur. Denizet-Lewis made news with his New York Times Magazine cover story “Double Lives on the Down Low,” included here, which ignited a firestorm by revealing a subculture of African-American men who have sex with other men but who don’t consider themselves gay. In American Voyeur, he also takes us inside a summer camp for pro-lif…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416539155 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1416539158 |
| Author: | Benoit Denizet-Lewis |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 337g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“I expected reading American Voyeur to be a guilty pleasure, but Denizet-Lewis’s compassion and involvement swept all the guilt away and left the pleasure!” – Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America“Thank God for Benoit Denizet-Lewis’s insatiable curiosity. It has resulted in a fascinating book. American Voyeur is about the big issues – sex, identity, religion, death – but is told through small, compelling corners of culture.” – A. J. Jacobs, author of The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
About The Author
Benoit Denizet-Lewis
Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a writer with The New York Times Magazine and an assistant professor of writing and publishing at Emerson College. He is the author of Travels With Casey, America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, and has contributed to Sports Illustrated, The New Republic, Details, Slate, Salon, Out, and many others. Denizet-Lewis lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Follow him @BenoitDLewis.
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