"Like Guy Davenport's, similarly influenced by European modernist models, Sontag's stories can be arch, smart, and elegant—if sometimes a touch arid. For all that, a welcome collection."
Nearly 40 years after I, etcetera, a new collection of short fiction from the noted essayist and critic, revealing her to be indeed "an occasional rather than a habitual writer of short stories."
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"An occasionally problematic but mostly sage memoir from an elegant writer."
Taylor (Proust: The Search, 2015, etc.) leans on gay and Jewish perspectives to craft a memoir of 1963-1964, with the touchstones of his youth still resonating today.
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"Packed with elegant aperçus and vibrant with the author's rueful understanding that 'Naples the glorious and Naples the ghastly have always been one place.'"
From novelist/essayist/editor Taylor (The Book of Getting Even, 2009, etc.), an idiosyncratic, atmospheric portrait of "the great open-air theater of Europe."
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I didn't ask to write about Saul Bellow: Letters so I could mention that I once received a letter from the late Nobel Prize-winning novelist.
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"An intellectual peep show whose ultimate meaning remains elusive."
Taylor's second novel (Tales Out of School, 1995) is an inconsequential story, with considerable pretensions, about a brainy gay Jewish astronomy student, his brainy best friends (twins) and their super-brainy parents.
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