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200 10$aExcept when I write $ereflections of a recovering critic /$fArthur Krystal
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2011
215   $a1 online resource (213 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-978240-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aContents; 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 Requiem
327   $a12. The Night Man-or Why I'm Not a NovelistCredits
330   $a""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, 
606   $aCriticism
606   $aLiterature and society
606   $aLearning and scholarship
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