Backward Ran Sentences
Maybe he doesn't like anything, but he can do everything, New Yorker editor Harold Ross once said of the magazine's brilliantly sardonic theater critic, Wolcott Gibbs. And, for over thirty years at the magazine, Gibbs did do just about everything. He turned out fiction and nonfiction, profiles and parodies, filled columns in Talk of the Town and Notes and Comment, covered books, movies, nightlife and, of course, the theater. A friend of the Algonquin Round Table, Gibbs was renowned for his wit. (Perhaps his most enduring line is from a profile of Henry Luce, parodying Time magazine's house style: Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.)…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60819-730-9
- EAN: 9781608197309
- Produktnummer: 13915119
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Usa
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 688 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
Tom Vinciguerra is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and former deputy editor of The Week.
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