Lauded by the critics Dana Gioia, Morris Dickstein, Edward Mendelson, Christopher Hitchens, Joseph Epstein, and Michael Dirda alike, Arthur Krystal has written for publications as varied as Harper's, the New Criterion, Raritan, the American Scholar, and Sports Illustrated. In characteristically lucid prose, Krystal offers here-if he is to be believed-his last collection. These eleven essays and one evocative story range in subject matter from the depredations of aging and the anomalies of cultural appropriation to the friendship between Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling and the day Muhammad Ali punched Krystal in the face.
About the AuthorArthur Krystal has written for the
New Yorker, the
New York Times, the
Wall Street Journal, the
Times Literary Supplement, and the
Washington Post, among other publications. His book
Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature was a finalist for the 2003 Pen Award for the art of the essay.
Book InformationISBN 9780813950624
Author Arthur KrystalFormat Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia Press
Weight(grams) 272g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 32mm