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Join us on Zoom for a conversation with author David Lazar.
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About the author:
David Lazar is a writer, editor, and essayist born in Brooklyn, NY. He has been involved in the development of "creative nonfiction" in the United States, creating graduate programs at Ohio University and Columbia College Chicago, writing theoretically about the essay, and mentoring and publishing many subsequent writers of note.
In this essay collection Celeste Holm Syndrome, David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters, both well-known and lesser known, from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Veering through considerations of melancholy and wit, sexuality and gender, and the surrealism of comedies of the self in an uncanny world, mixed with his own autobiographical reflections of cinephilia, Lazar creates an alluring hybrid of essay forms as he moves through the movies in his mind. Character actors from the classical era of the 1930s through the 1950s including Thelma Ritter, Oscar Levant, Martin Balsam, Nina Foch, Elizabeth Wilson, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, and the eponymous Celeste Holm all make appearances in these considerations of how essential character actors were, and remain, to cinema.
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