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Clever, snarky pieces about famous people that occasionally require the insider knowledge found in a Wikipedia article. The illustrations are star for me, though I have to say Gorey should have looked at an actual braid before trying to draw one.

Ascerbic, alliterative (not to say assonant), and amusing short, satiric, and silly biographies. (It helps to know something of their actual lives.)

I'm starting to get it.

Okay, I've gotten several smiles already, but with Moss's profile of Henry James, I am cackling. "He took a dim view, if, indeed, a view, in all consciousness, could be considered one, when the very act of its perception was, by definition, barely discernible, of biography, that addiction to 'truth-seeking' that so often cloaked, when it did not, more accurately, mask, a predilection for poking into corners"