{"product_id":"book-iqqj","title":"Still Pictures","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e poked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In \u003ci\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e, she turns her gimlet eye on her own life—a task demanding a writer just as peerlessly skillful as she was widely known to be.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e, then, is not the story of a life but an event on its own terms, an encounter with identity and family photographs as poignant and original as anything since Roland Barthes's \u003ci\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/i\u003e. Malcolm looks beyond the content of the image and the easy seductions of self-recognition, constructing a memoir from memories that pose questions of their own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the image of a morose young girl on a train, leaving Prague for New York at the age of five in 1939. From her fitful early loves, to evenings at the old Metropolitan Opera House, to her fascination with what it might mean to be a \"bad girl,\" Malcolm assembles a composite portrait of a New York childhood, one that never escapes the tug of Europe and the mysteries of fate and family. Later, \u003ci\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e delves into her marriage to Gardner Botsford, the world of William Shawn's \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and the libel trial that led Malcolm to become a character in her own drama.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49350413648176,"sku":"BDiqqj","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49350413713712,"sku":"ZEiqqj","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49350413746480,"sku":"ZMiqqj","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/iqqj-Square-cover.jpg?v=1770940174","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-iqqj","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}