The half-life of an American essayist
Subtitle: essays
By: by Arthur Krystal.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781567923285
Description: "In his first book, Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature, Arthur Krystal demonstrated that the literary essay is alive and well. His new book, The Half-Life of an American Essayist, continues to demonstrate that the literary essay in the right hands can itself be a subset of literature. Whether he's examining the evolution of the typewriter, the nature of sin, the cultural implications of physiognomy, the works of Paul Valery and Raymond Chandler, or his own ineffable laziness, Krystal's prose always speaks to the common reader."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: The half-life of an American essayist; title: Typewriter days; title: The pages of sin; title: An African American in Regency England; title: Hello, beautiful!; title: My holocaust problem; title: The inexhaustible Paul Val'ry; title: Club work : W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling; title: No failure like success : the life of Raymond Chandler; title: Here's looking at you; title: Boxers and writers; title: Who speaks for the lazy?.