Arthur Krystal

Except When I Write

Reflections of a Recovering Critic

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Produktbeschreibung

Covering subjects as diverse as aphorisms, dueling, the night, and the 1960s, the essays gathered here offer the common reader uncommon pleasure. Keenly observant and death on pretension, Krystal examines the world of books without ever losing sight of the world beyond them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780190494360
• ISBN-10: 0190494360
• Artikelnr.: 47863273

Autorenporträt

Arthur Krystal has written for The New Yorker, Harpers, the American Scholar, the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. He is the author of The Half-Life of an American Essayist and Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature. The title essay of Except When I Write was selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of Best American Essays. He lives in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Author's Note
1. When Writers Speak
2. Carpe Noctem: A Little Night Music
3. Slang-Whanger: William Hazlitt's Impetuous Prose
4. Too True: The Art of Aphorism
5. The Usual Suspect: Edgar Allan Poe, Consulting Detective
6. A Man for All Reasons: Jacques Barzun
7. En Garde! The Duel in History
8. Some Remarks on the Pitfalls of Biography: Especially Where Writers are Concerned
9. Slow Fade: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
10. The Worst of Times: Revisiting the Great Depression
11. The Long Goodbye: The Sixties; In Pace Requiem
12. The Night Man-or Why I'm Not a Novelist