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Except When I Write: Reflections of a Recovering Critic
When cultural critics with such wildly divergent views as Jacques Barzun, Christopher Hitchens, Joseph Epstein, Dana Gioia, and Morris Dickstein all agree about the merits of one contemporary essayist, shouldn't you find out why? "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,...more
-- Attributed to Montaigne by Edgar Allan Poe
From Montaigne in the sixteenth century to Orwell,...more
Hardcover, 196 pages
Published
July 1st 2011
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published June 1st 2011)
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Krystal is one of the more interesting essayists I've read recently. My previous experience with him had been in a collection called Agitations, which was so filled with exciting ideas that it was a lot like discovering entirely new concepts and ways of seeing. The essays in Except When I Write, while still thought-provoking and engaging, are less heady. Here is appealing writing on the work of William Hazlitt and Edgar Allan Poe's detective fiction, and an appraisal of F. Scott Fitzgerald's scr...more
I read this in fits and starts so it's hard to look back on the book as a whole. But I quite enjoyed most of the essays, and found myself wanting to read the books he writes about.
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