Bøker av David Lazar

Stories of the Street is a series of imaginative meditations—through prose poems, short-short essays, microfictions, and prose pieces without precise genre distinction—of what it means to encounter lost or discarded texts. By photographing on-location, David Lazar becomes a flaneur of paper debris, puzzling over the evidence of urban human life that litter represents.

Celeste Holm Syndrome is a series of essays about character actors, both the famous and lesser known, from Hollywood's Golden Age.

Markets and Ideology in the City of London is the first fieldwork-based sociological study of how participants in City of London financial markets view the markets in which they work and the market mechanism in general.

What it means to be occasionally aware that we are surviving by our wits, and that our desires, ulterior or obvious, are what keep us alive.

In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions. He sets his work apart as both in the essay and of the essay by throwing himself into the form's past.