02849nam 2200589 a 450 991081398540332120240516080855.00-19-989025-00-19-978262-8(CKB)2670000000095212(EBL)728722(OCoLC)732065169(SSID)ssj0000522461(PQKBManifestationID)12214918(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522461(PQKBWorkID)10528826(PQKB)10270616(MiAaPQ)EBC728722(Au-PeEL)EBL728722(CaPaEBR)ebr10477981(EXLCZ)99267000000009521220110428d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrExcept when I write reflections of a recovering critic /Arthur Krystal1st ed.New York Oxford University Pressc20111 online resource (213 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-978240-7 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Author's Note; Acknowledgements; 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 the 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 Requiem12. The Night Man-or Why I'm Not a NovelistCredits""I never think except when I sit down to write."" -- Attributed to Montaigne by Edgar Allan Poe From Montaigne in the sixteenth century to Orwell, Eliot, and Trilling in the twentieth, the best literary essayists combine a gift for observation with an abiding commitment to books. Although it may seem that books are becoming less essential and that a revolution in sensibility is taking place, the essays of Arthur Krystal suggest otherwise. Companionable without being chummy, engaged without being didactic, erudite without being stuffy, he demonstrates that literature, even in the digital age, CriticismLiterature and societyLearning and scholarshipCriticism.Literature and society.Learning and scholarship.814/.54Krystal Arthur1628559MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813985403321Except when I write4023614UNINA