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"One of the premier narrative non-fiction writers of her time." -- The New RepublicJanet Malcolm's previous collection, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, was "unmistakably the work of a master" (The New York Times Book Review) . Like Forty-One False Starts, Nobody's Looking at You brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly from The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books.The title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said to her, "Nobody's looking at you." But in every piece in this volume, Malcolm looks closely and with impunity at a broad range of subjects, from Donald Trump's TV nemesis Rachel Maddow, to the stiletto-heel-wearing pianist Yuju Wang, to "the big-league game" of Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
About the Author
Janet Malcolm was a journalist, biographer, collagist, and staff writer at . She is the author of and , as well as biographies of , and The Modern Library chose her controversial book - with its - as one of the 100 best non-fiction works of the 20th century. Her most recent book is
