James Wolcott: 3 books
Critical Mass
Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A career-spanning collection of critical essays and cultural journalism from one of the most acute, entertaining, and sometimes acerbic (but in a good way) critics of our time
From his early-seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock ’n’ roll, comedy, movies,...
Lucking Out
My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”
That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no...
by James Wolcott
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Bartender by day, actor by night, Johnny Downs cheerfully floats through life, living alone with his jukebox and his cat. Blindsided when his dazzling girlfriend dumps him, Johnny is wounded, stunned, and, most of all, clueless.
You're like most men -- oblivious, says his friend Darlene. Her...