I don’t have the physical thing yet, but we’ve locked down the jacket design and my blurbs. So I wanted to share them, particularly the blurbs.
Ben Moser, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Susan Sontag is wonderful and wonderfully readable, says this: “Dave Hickey’s lifetime of stops and starts, ‘three fourths of a disaster,’ produced a brambly, bubbly body of work that ranges from Flaubert to Liberace and from Hank Williams to Michelangelo. It’s the kind of legacy that demands an explanation, and Daniel Oppenheimer provides a brilliant one. Hickey is beautiful—and so is this book.”
Steven Soderbergh, the amazing filmmaker, says this: “The never-to-be-completed mosaic that is Dave Hickey’s life and work gains some beautifully hand-crafted tiles from Daniel Oppenheimer. His authorial voice—open, intimate, probing—is the perfect vehicle for plumbing the depths of Hickey’s overall essentialness. I devoured it.”