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The Books: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, ‘European Dreams’, by Joan Acocella
On the essays shelf: Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella. The next essay is called ‘European Dreams’, about Austrian-Jewish novelist and journalist Joseph Roth. One of Acocella’s abiding interests is writers and artists caught in the middle … Continue reading
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The Books: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, ‘A Hard Case’, by Joan Acocella
On the essays shelf: Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella. The next essay I want to excerpt is called ‘A Hard Case’, a review of a new biography on Primo Levi, by Carol Angier. Acocella, like many … Continue reading
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The Books: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, ‘Becoming the Emperor’, by Joan Acocella
On the essays shelf: Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella. The next essay I want to excerpt is called ‘Becoming the Emperor’, originally published in The New Yorker in 2005. It is about the French author Marguerite … Continue reading
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The Books: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, ‘The Frog and the Crocodile’, by Joan Acocella
On the essays shelf: Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella. The next essay I want to excerpt is called ‘The Frog and the Crocodile’, originally published in The New Yorker. Yet another essay by Joan Acocella that … Continue reading
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The Books: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, ‘True Confessions’, by Joan Acocella
Next book on the essays shelf: Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella. The next essay is called ‘True Confessions’, originally published in The New Yorker. This essay is an example of what Joan Acocella does best. Although … Continue reading
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The Books: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, ‘Blocked’, by Joan Acocella
Next book on the essays shelf: Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella. Joan Acocella has brought a lot of great things into my life, which is a strange thing to say, on the face of it. She … Continue reading
2009 Books Read
A pathetic showing when you consider how much I normally read (2008, 2007, 2006, 2005), but whatever, I did what I could. I did not read a book, not one word, from about March to August. Or, that’s probably wrong … Continue reading
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Joan Acocella: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
Joan Acocella has been a staff writer for The New Yorker for I don’t know how many years, and I am just now starting to pay attention to her. She writes mainly about dance (her dance columns are amazing – … Continue reading
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Tagged Joan Acocella, Primo Levi, Stefan Zweig, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, Zelda Fitzgerald
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