In a cardboard belt!: essays personal, literary, and savage
Taking his title from the wounded cry of once-great Max Bialystock in The Producers--"Look at me now! Look at me now! I'm wearing a cardboard belt!"--Epstein gives us his largest and most comprehensive collection to date. Writing as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused...
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| Summary: | Taking his title from the wounded cry of once-great Max Bialystock in The Producers--"Look at me now! Look at me now! I'm wearing a cardboard belt!"--Epstein gives us his largest and most comprehensive collection to date. Writing as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused observer of contemporary culture, he uses to deft and devastating effect his signature gifts: wide-ranging erudition, sparkling humor, and a penetrating intelligence. In personally revealing essays about his father and about his years as a teacher, in deeply considered examinations of writers from Paul Vale;ry to Truman Capote, and in incisive take-downs of such cultural pooh-bahs as Harold Bloom and George Steiner, Epstein presents us with what is surely the best work of our country's most singular talent, engaged with the richness and variety of life, witty in his response to the world, and always entertaining. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index |
| Physical Description: | XXII, 410 S. |
| ISBN: | 0618721932 |
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| adam_text | IN A CARDBOARD BELT! ESSAYS PERSONAL, LITERARY, AND SAVAGE JOSEPH
EPSTEIN HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON * NEW YORK 2007 CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: KID TURNS SEVENTY, NOBODY CHEERS XI I. PERSONAL OH DAD,
DEAR DAD 3 TALKING TO ONESELF 15 GOODBYE, MR. CHIPSTEIN 32 ON THE ROAD
AGAIN, ALAS 45 MEMOIRS OF A CHEAP AND FINICKY GLUTTON 59 SPEAKING OF THE
DEAD 72 WHY I AM NOT A LAWYER 82 BOOKS WON T FURNISH A ROOM 96 II.
LITERARY THE INTIMATE ABSTRACTION OF PAUL VALERY IN MONSIEUR PROUST S
MASTERWORK 127 VIN AUDENAIRE 145 THE GOD-HAUNTED FICTION OF I. B. SINGER
164 TRUMAN CAPOTE AND THE COST OF CHARM 177 THE MAX BEERBOHM CULT 186
LORD BERNERS: PINK PIGEONS AND BLUE MAYONNAISE 195 THE RETURN OF KARL
SHAPIRO? 208 THE MEDICAL KEATS 218 X * CONTENTS III. ATTACKS MORTIMER
ADLER: THE GREAT BOOKIE 243 CURIOUS GEORGE STEINER 254 BLOOMIN GENIUS
263 THANK YOU, NO 273 FORGETTING EDMUND WILSON 281 IV. THE INTELLECTUAL
LIFE INTELLECTUALS, PUBLIC AND OTHERWISE 295 C MON, REINY, LET S DO THE
TWIST 308 THE TORTURE OF WRITER S BLOCK 321 IS READING REALLY AT RISK?
331 THE PERPETUAL ADOLESCENT 343 THE CULTURE OF CELEBRITY 356 WHY ARE
ACADEMICS SO UNHAPPY? 373 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOVIES? 383 I M HISTORY
394
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IN A CARDBOARD BELT! ESSAYS PERSONAL, LITERARY, AND SAVAGE JOSEPH
EPSTEIN HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON * NEW YORK 2007 CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: KID TURNS SEVENTY, NOBODY CHEERS XI I. PERSONAL OH DAD,
DEAR DAD 3 TALKING TO ONESELF 15 GOODBYE, MR. CHIPSTEIN 32 ON THE ROAD
AGAIN, ALAS 45 MEMOIRS OF A CHEAP AND FINICKY GLUTTON 59 SPEAKING OF THE
DEAD 72 WHY I AM NOT A LAWYER 82 BOOKS WON'T FURNISH A ROOM 96 II.
LITERARY THE INTIMATE ABSTRACTION OF PAUL VALERY IN MONSIEUR PROUST'S
MASTERWORK 127 VIN AUDENAIRE 145 THE GOD-HAUNTED FICTION OF I. B. SINGER
164 TRUMAN CAPOTE AND THE COST OF CHARM 177 THE MAX BEERBOHM CULT 186
LORD BERNERS: PINK PIGEONS AND BLUE MAYONNAISE 195 THE RETURN OF KARL
SHAPIRO? 208 THE MEDICAL KEATS 218 X * CONTENTS III. ATTACKS MORTIMER
ADLER: THE GREAT BOOKIE 243 CURIOUS GEORGE STEINER 254 BLOOMIN' GENIUS
263 THANK YOU, NO 273 FORGETTING EDMUND WILSON 281 IV. THE INTELLECTUAL
LIFE INTELLECTUALS, PUBLIC AND OTHERWISE 295 C'MON, REINY, LET'S DO THE
TWIST 308 THE TORTURE OF WRITER'S BLOCK 321 IS READING REALLY AT RISK?
331 THE PERPETUAL ADOLESCENT 343 THE CULTURE OF CELEBRITY 356 WHY ARE
ACADEMICS SO UNHAPPY? 373 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOVIES? 383 I'M HISTORY
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