Salon.com > Give Me Everything You Have http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 13:29:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Give Me Everything You Have”: Stalked! http://www.salon.com/2013/02/10/give_me_everything_you_have_stalked/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/10/give_me_everything_you_have_stalked/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13196442 With its eerie, pristine prose, James Lasdun's fiction distills the anxieties of contemporary life to their mythic core. In his remarkable 2002 novel, "The Horned Man," an academic estranged from his wife goes quietly mad while serving on his college's sexual harassment committee, imagining that the department's most legendary womanizer is secretly living in his office and sabotaging his life. Take a writer like this, one who specializes in the surreal, inward spiraling of paranoia, and make him the target of a clever stalker: It sounds like the premise of a James Lasdun novel, right? However, "Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked," Lasdun's new book, is not a novel, but a memoir.

Continue Reading...

]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/10/give_me_everything_you_have_stalked/feed/ 21