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Except when I write : reflections of a recovering critic / Arthur Krystal.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.R96 E93 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krystal, Arthur.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism.
- Literature and society.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- 1 When Writers Speak 3
- 2 Carpe Noctem: A Little Night Music 17
- 3 Slang-Whanger: William Hazlitt's Impetuous Prose 29
- 4 Too True: The Art of the Aphorism 47
- 5 The Usual Suspect: Edgar Allan Poe, Consulting Detective 63
- 6 A Man for All Reasons: Jacques Barzun 81
- 7 En Garde! The Duel in History 101
- 8 Some Remarks on the Pitfalls of Biography: Especially Where Writers are Concerned 117
- 9 Slow Fade: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood 131
- 10 The Worst of Times: Revisiting the Great Depression 149
- 11 The Long Goodbye: The Sixties-In Pace Requiem 163
- 12 The Night Man-or Why I'm Not a Novelist 181.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780199782406
- 0199782407
- OCLC:
- 681503794
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