Critical Mass

Critical Mass
Title Critical Mass PDF eBook
Author James Wolcott
Publisher Anchor
Pages 530
Release 2015-04-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0767930630

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James Wolcott’s career as a critic has been unmatched, from his early Seventies dispatches for The Village Voice to the literary coverage made him equally feared and famous to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair. Bringing together his best work from across the decades, this collection shows Wolcott as connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and necessary naysayer. We begin with “O.K. Corral Revisited,” Wolcott’s career-launching account of the famed Norman Mailer–Gore Vidal dust-off on the original Dick Cavett Show. He goes on to consider (or reconsider) the towering figures of our culture, among them Lena Dunham Patti Smith, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen, and John Cheever. And we witness his legendary takedowns, which have entered into the literary lore of our time. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, Critical Mass offers a bracing taste of the real thing.

Essays of Four Decades

Essays of Four Decades
Title Essays of Four Decades PDF eBook
Author Allen Tate
Publisher
Pages 640
Release 1970
Genre American literature
ISBN 9780196903835

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Why I Write

Why I Write
Title Why I Write PDF eBook
Author George Orwell
Publisher Renard Press Ltd
Pages 15
Release 2021-01-01
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1913724263

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Garner's Quotations

Garner's Quotations
Title Garner's Quotations PDF eBook
Author Dwight Garner
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 164
Release 2020-11-10
Genre Reference
ISBN 0374722145

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A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades. From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner’s Quotations is like no commonplace book you’ll ever read. If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on in the world of letters today, this book will make you sit up and take notice. Unputdownable!

Allen Tate and His Work

Allen Tate and His Work
Title Allen Tate and His Work PDF eBook
Author Radcliffe Squires
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 363
Release 1972-01-01
Genre
ISBN 1452909318

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Feminisms Redux

Feminisms Redux
Title Feminisms Redux PDF eBook
Author Diane Price Herndl
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 564
Release 2009
Genre Feminism and literature
ISBN

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Aspects of the Pathology of Money: Monetary Essays from Four Decades

Aspects of the Pathology of Money: Monetary Essays from Four Decades
Title Aspects of the Pathology of Money: Monetary Essays from Four Decades PDF eBook
Author Michael Angelo Heilperin
Publisher
Pages 304
Release 1968
Genre International finance
ISBN

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