Walter Kerr
Birth date: July 08, 1913
Died: October 09, 1996
Walter Kerr's Books
(Original Review, 1981-05-25) Here’s a quiz on “sex in literature”. The problem is I don’t know the answers. This comes from Walter Kerr’s 1962 book “The Decline of Pleasure.” He doesn’t present it as a quiz, but merely describes incidents in recent novels and plays that he evidently expects the...
Better than I thought it would be, but not great. I love the drama, but sometimes Miller just irritates me. Oh well. It was insightful enough.Miller's Cold War allusions are artful, and I found them easy to draw and relate beautifully.*Note: I have yet to read all of the extra content, but I will do...
[These notes were made in 1990:]. Bought as a coffee-table book (and it is certainly well-illustrated), this turns out to be an extremely intelligent piece of film criticism, with the glossy paper and pictures a bonus to the text rather than the other way around. I haven't enjoyed a piece of non-f...
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