I received a promotional copy of this book through the First Reads program. Rating: Somewhere in the 3 to 3 1/2 range.I really like the title piece. "Capitalist Pastorale" is a waste of time. The others fall somewhere in between, with "Edward Weston's Nudes" being one of the better pieces and the Bl...
(Solamente porque lo recomendaban en Flavorwire para los seguidores de los podcasts d SERIAL de Sarah Koening).
Although this is a very well-written book, I found it dry. Malcolm has done a wonderful job piecing together the evidence to form the narrative of Stein and Toklas' lives. I loved the story of how Stein defaced her poem Stanzas by crossing out every instance of the word "may" and replacing th...
Loved the direction Malcolm took with this, and genre in general. It's impressive stuff.
Surprisingly (given the rather strange and narrow topic), a fascinating book -- not just on Freud, but on academic narcissism and on the psychology of heresy...
This is a slim volume (205 pages) for lovers of Chekhov who neither want nor need any in-depth analysis of the stories (which is not to say we get no analysis, just that it's measured and doesn't overwhelm the reader). This is Janet Malcolm's extended essay on why Chekhov is such a brilliant writer ...
Update: Fascinating book! I was expecting a bit more of her conversations with McGinnis and would have been interested in whether or not her own view of MacDonald's guilt or innocence had changed in the course of the project. It struck me as an oddly chilly book, though completely engrossing.Apparen...
Back in my younger and more vulnerable years, I did high school journalism and one of the big concerns was how to report on minors, considering at least 3/4 of the people in the school were under the age of 18. There's a lot of legal precedent to treat high school journalists with the same privilege...
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