Ha, just read that last night and was tempted to do a "you're all so wrong about Anthony Lane" post.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:11 AM
What don't you like about Lane? (besides the content...)
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:18 AM
baa, Labs's post on it here (with more in comments, of course), and previous discussion of Lane here.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:22 AM
Speaking of writers with irritating stylistic tics: I absolutely hate it when Tom Friedman talks about entire countries as though they were individual people.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:28 AM
About Kees himself: did you find that his letters (or at least the brief excerpts) were the sharpest of his writings?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:32 AM
I did, in fact, but that's partly because I've never gone in for poetry.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:33 AM
You should check out Albert Goldbarth's Saving Lives, I think you'd like it.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:35 AM
Ah, Amazon has a good and representative page you can see.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:39 AM
A little late, but I had the exact same thought, "wow I should mention on unfogged that this is a darn good Anthony Lany piece".
On the subject of articles about people who had difficult lives I also found this article about Billie Holiday to be quite moving.
Posted by NickS | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 6:53 PM
Ha, just read that last night and was tempted to do a "you're all so wrong about Anthony Lane" post.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:11 AM
What don't you like about Lane? (besides the content...)
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:18 AM
baa, Labs's post on it here (with more in comments, of course), and previous discussion of Lane here.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:22 AM
Speaking of writers with irritating stylistic tics: I absolutely hate it when Tom Friedman talks about entire countries as though they were individual people.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:28 AM
About Kees himself: did you find that his letters (or at least the brief excerpts) were the sharpest of his writings?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:32 AM
I did, in fact, but that's partly because I've never gone in for poetry.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:33 AM
You should check out Albert Goldbarth's Saving Lives, I think you'd like it.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:35 AM
Ah, Amazon has a good and representative page you can see.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 10:39 AM
A little late, but I had the exact same thought, "wow I should mention on unfogged that this is a darn good Anthony Lany piece".
On the subject of articles about people who had difficult lives I also found this article about Billie Holiday to be quite moving.
Posted by NickS | Link to this comment | 07- 1-05 6:53 PM