Wendy Lesser

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Wendy Lesser.
Wendy Lesser.

Wendy Lesser (born 1952) is an American art critic, novelist, and editor.

Lesser is the founding editor of the arts journal The Threepenny Review. She is the author of eight books, most recently her first novel, The Pagoda in the Garden (Other Press, 2005), and her latest nonfiction book, "Room for Doubt" (Pantheon, 2007). She is based in Berkeley, California.

[edit] Works

  • The Life Below the Ground: A Study of the Subterranean in Literature and History (1987)
  • His Other Half: Men Looking at Women Through Art (1991)
  • Pictures at an Execution (1994)
  • A Director Calls (1997)
  • The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters (1999)
  • Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering (2002)
  • The Pagoda in the Garden (2005)
  • Room for Doubt (2007)

[edit] External links

review of Room for Doubt by Emily Weinstein at The Village Voice