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Kevin Kopelson

Kevin Kopelson, at this point, has nothing else to say about himself.

From the London Review dated 22 May 2008

Diary

I quote too much. Give me a good line – what am I saying? Give me a good paragraph – even a Proustian one – and I’ll shove it into my own prose regardless of how tiresome that is. Take my last book, on the satirist David Sedaris. Not only do you get more Proust than you’d ever care for, you get an awful lot of Sedaris – pure, unadulterated Sedaris. It’s not that I’m lazy. Or rather, it’s not just that I’m lazy. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Sedaris (2007)
  • Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer’s Desk (2004)
  • The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky (1998)
  • Beethoven’s Kiss: Pianism, Perversion and the Mastery of Desire (1996)
  • Love’s Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics (1994)

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In the LRB archive

Diary: Confessions of a Plagiarist · 22 May 2008

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 not available in archive Adipose Tumorous Growths and All · 18 May 2000

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