FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
The fl-ur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the fl-use who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the fl-use is a -determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk.- Virginia Woolf called it -street haunting-; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany-s; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York.
Part cultural meander, part memoir, Fl-use takes us on a distinctly cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she-s lived
