I Gave Up Writing Blurbs

I Have, I Admit, A Low Tolerance For Detached Chronicling And Cool Analysis.

I Liked Camille Paglia. I Liked Her Even Better When I Heard Her Talk.

My Assignment Is What Every Writer's Assignment Is: Tell The Truth Of His Own Time.

I Think The Pattern Of My Essays Is, A Funny Thing Happened To Me On My Way Through Finnegans Wake.

I've Been Writing About James Fenimore Cooper. He Was Not A Writer. Here Was A Man Who Was 30 Years Old And Had Never Put Anything More Than His Signature On Paper.