Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.

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Journalist and artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center and author of Considering Genius: Jazz Writings

Focused on Eros, the winter 2009 issue of Lapham's Quarterly offers especially brilliant pages that are bromides for our protracted adolescence regarding things erotic. We see that there is much more to intimate activities than pleasurable collisions between surfaces and genitals. This is quite an accomplishment because ours is a country not so much obsessed with sex as stupefied by it, primarily because most men seem to believe it is their right to remain adolescent in all things outside of business if they have become reasonably or unreasonably successful. This means that more women than we would like to think about have bad luck, even if it appears that they have had good luck: So many of their guys end up being 17-year-old 50- or 60-year-olds. So this issue of Lapham's Quarterly provides a long drink of our humanity, which is always the source and the solution to whatever blues we have.

2:09 pm, Mar 9, 2009

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The world for Stanley's impeccable taste, thank god for the Daily Beast, I have found you.

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9:08 pm, Mar 9, 2009

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