James Wolcott

Lucking Out

My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies

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From one of our most admired (and feared) cultural critics, a memoir that captures all the gritty, grubby glamour of New York in the awful/wonderful Seventies.In the autumn of 1972, a very young and green James Wolcott arrived in New York from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as Downtown became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style. This portrait of a criti… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-7679-3062-8
EAN: 9780767930628
Produktnummer: 12458561
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 272 S.

Über den Autor

JAMES WOLCOTT is a longtime columnist and blogger for Vanity Fair. He is the author of a novel, The Catsitters, and the nonfiction work Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants. He lives in New York with his wife, the critic and novelist Laura Jacobs, and their three ocicats, Jasper, Henry, and Veronica.