Critical mass
Subtitle: four decades of essays, reviews, hand grenades, and hurrahs
By: James Wolcott
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9780385527798
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; MUSIC / History & Criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Work titles: Prose works
Description: "From his early seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock 'n roll, movies, and television, to the literary criticism of the eighties and nineties that made him both feared and famous, to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair, James Wolcott has had a career as a freelance critic and an intellectual nearly unique in our time. This collection features the best of Wolcott in whatever guise-connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and, occasionally, hit man-he has chosen to take on. The result is a treasure trove of sparkling, high-octane prose and a portrait of our life and cultural times over the past four decades"--