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Vicious Nonsense - Quips, Snubs & Jabs by Literary Friends and Foes

English · Hardback

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The pen is truly mightier than the sword in this collection of more than a hundred digs, jabs, and outright put-downs from the world''s most respected writers, about-each other! reveals the acerbic side of beloved authors who became brutal critics when writing about their fellow wordsmiths. James Baldwin writes on Langston Hughes, "Every time I read Langston Hughes I am amazed all over again by his genuine gifts-and depressed that he has done so little with them..." Dorothy Parker spares no love for Gertrude Stein: "To quote the only line of Gertrude Stein''s which I have ever been able to understand, ''It is wonderful how I am not interested.''" Curated from letters, essays, and reviews, this sometimes stinging, sometimes good-natured, and always delightful collection will ignite the armchair critic in us all.

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Authors Kristen Hewitt
Assisted by Kristen Hewitt (Editor)
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.04.2021
 
EAN 9781616899905
ISBN 978-1-61689-990-5
Subjects Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General

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