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A deft blend of autobiography, history, and criticism that moves from New York in the 1930s to wartime England to the postwar South, Writing Was Everything emerges as a reaffirmation of literature in an age of deconstruction and critical dogma. In his encounters with books, Kazin shows us how great writing matters and how it involves us morally, socially, and personally on the deepest level.
Whether reflecting on modernism, southern fiction, or black, Jewish, and New Yorker writing, or sharing anecdotes about Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, and John Cheever, he gives a penetrating, moving account of literature observed and lived. In his life as a critic, Kazin personifies the lesson that living and writing are necessarily intimate.
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May 26, 1998, Harvard University Press
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"Sixty years ago, in the summer of 1934, nineteen years old and with a year to go at City College of New York, I became one of the crowd of hacks barely surviving the depression by doing book reviews for "The New Republic.""
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"Sixty years ago, in the summer of 1934, nineteen years old and with a year to go at City College of New York, I became one of the crowd of hacks barely surviving the depression by doing book reviews for "The New Republic.""
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