| #674014 in eBooks | 2013-05-07 | 2013-05-07 | File type: PDF||23 of 26 people found the following review helpful.| Malcolm's writing is brilliant|By Jim F. Baughman|I got bogged down in the VERY long essay about Artforum magazine, and I don't agree with Malcolm's enthusiasm for J.D. Salinger's writing (he's got a very narrow focus and his characters are really more petulant than anything else). But the David Salle piece which opens the collection (and furnishes its title) is a masterpiec|From Booklist|Malcolm’s sentences are joy rides, exhilarating and alarming. Her vocabulary is crisp, savory, and stinging. Her inquisitiveness is red-hot, she is devilishly funny, and her interpretations of
A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism
A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics.
Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction—as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one "false starts," or serial attempts to capture the essence of the ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers | Janet Malcolm. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
