Book
Shaking a leg : collected writings
Publication Information
New York : Penguin Books, 1998.
Physical Description
641 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Originally published: Great Britain : Chatto & Windus Ltd., c1997.
Contents
- Mother lode
- My father's house
- Sugar daddy
- Notes from a maternity ward
- Fools are my theme
- Notes from the front line
- Anger in a black landscape
- Lovely Linda
- Fat is ugly
- Well-hung hang-up
- Health on the brain
- Georges Bataille: Story of the eye
- Edward Shorter: A history of women's bodies
- Eric Rhode: On birth and madness
- New vegetarians
- Saucerer's apprentice
- Jessica Kuper (ed.): The anthropologist's cookbook
- Barbara Tims (ed.): Food in vogue
- Elizabeth David: English bread and yeast cookery
- Omlette and a glass of wine and other dishes
- Patience Gray: Honey from a weed
- Notes for a theory of sixties style
- Wound in the face
- Trouser protest
- Year of the punk
- Bridled sweeties
- Ted Polhemus and Lynn Procter: Fashion and anti-fashion
- David Kunzle: Fashion and fetishisms --
- (Cont'd) Recession style
- Lou Taylor: Mourning dress
- Elizabeth Wilson: Adorned in dreams
- Roland Barthes: The fashion system
- Arthur Marwick: Beauty in history
- Bradford: Industry as artwork
- Fin de siècle
- Oss has his day
- Bath, heritage city
- What the hell, it's home!
- Donnie ferrets
- Paris of the North
- D'you mean south?
- Poets in a landscape
- So there'll always be an England
- Masochism for the masses
- Michael Moorcock: Mother London
- Iain Sinclair: Downriver
- My Maugham award
- Back of beyond
- Triple flavour
- Wet dream city
- Petrified harvest
- Bread on still waters
- Munch and antibiotics
- Constructing an Australia
- Tokyo pastoral
- People as pictures
- Mishima's toy sword
- Once more into the mangle
- Poor butterfly
- Death in Japan
- Fertility festival --
- (Cont'd) Murasaki Shikibu: The tale of Genji
- Ian Buruma: A Japanese mirror
- Junichiro Tanizaki: Naomi
- Tom Wolf
- That Arizona home
- Snow-belt America
- Rise of the preppies
- Anne Campbell: The girls in the gang
- Edmund White: The beautiful room is empty
- At the zoo
- Animals in the nursery
- In the bear garden
- Little lamb, get lost
- All creatures great and small
- Now is the time for singing
- Bob Dylan on tour
- Busker (retired)
- Good old songs
- Giants' playtime
- Wagner and the mistral
- Fun fairs
- Carlos Moore: Fela fela
- Phyllis Rose: Jazz Cleopatra
- Femmes fatales
- Japanese erotica
- Much, much stranger than fiction
- Bertolucci: La luna
- Hal Ashby: Being there
- Draughtsman's contract
- Belle as businessperson --
- (Cont'd) Jean-Luc Godard
- Robert Coover: A night at the movies
- Hollywood
- Barry Paris Louise Brooks
- In Pantoland
- Granada, tooting
- Theater of the absurd
- Acting it up on the small screen
- Box does furnish a room
- Monkey business
- Wonderful world of cops
- Berthold Hinz: Art in the Third Reich
- Treasures of ancient Nigeria
- Artists of the Tudor Court
- Pontus Hulten: The Arcimboldo effect
- Three women artists
- Frida Kahlo
- Jorge Luis Borges: An introduction to English Literature
- Hidden child
- Art of Horrorzines
- Better to eat you with
- I for truth
- Latin rhythms
- Yashar Kemal: The lords of Akchasaz
- William Burroughs: Ah Pook is here
- William Burroughs: The western lands
- German legends of the Brothers Grimm --
- (Cont'd) Sweet sell of romance
- Robert Darnton: The great cat massacre
- Irish folk tales, Arab folktales
- Bruce Chatwin: The songlines
- Through a text backwards: The resurrection of the House of Usher
- Milorad Pavic: Dictionary of the Khazars
- Milorad Pavic: Landscape painted with tea
- Lorenzo the closet queen
- Life of Katherine Mansfield
- Alchemy of the wood
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- Grace Paley: The little disturbances of man and enormous changes at the last minute
- Colette
- Carol Ascher: Simone de Beauvoir
- D.H. Lawrence, scholarship boy
- Envoi: Bloomsday
- Alison's giggle
- Trials of a Booker judge
- J.G. Ballard Empire of the sun
- End: Reading South Africa
- Christina Stead
- Vladimir Nabokov: The enchanter --
- (Cont'd) Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda
- Salman Rushdie: The santanic verses
- Love in a cold climate
- Colin Greenland: Michael Moorcock: Death is no obstacle.