The most astonishing book of the year to date around here is critic Wayne Koestenbaum's Humiliation, from 2011, a pained confessional essay about being brought low, about being crushed, about what the pain of embarrassment, shame, and mortification brings to a sufferer. Tomorrow the media pillory that Koestenbaum describes so well will begin (it's alreadyContinue reading “Humiliation planned for losing candidate: Romney set”
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The Beauty of Humiliation (on the court)
Don’t often drop in basketball links, but this poem by Sherman Alexie — on an epochal humiliation — is pretty wonderful. The culprit is now little remembered, but Alexie won’t forget him — James "Jammin" Bailey.
Kit Stolz 