Why the buzz: “Koestenbaum’s Figure It Out is a new collection of essays that range from personal—about buying new eyeglasses and doing corpse pose in yoga—to critical—about Marguerite Duras’s sentences, Elizabeth Taylor’s Twitter page, Robert Rauschenberg’s squeegee. But really it’s an outlandish and exhilarating guidebook for artists, writers, and people—about how to pay attention and cultivate curiosity and playfulness in your life. It never fails to cure me of malaise, self-doubt, narrow-mindedness, and boredom.”—Yuka Igarashi, editor-in-chief, Soft Skull
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