Wolcott, James

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61-64	October 1983 Palpitations/Article Hammett's long goodbye: A deferential biography of literature's Marlboro man By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Biography; Hammett, Dashiell; Dashiell Hammett, a life (Book); Johnson, Diane PDF IMAGES
43-53	July 1983 Article The neat stuff By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Career in coaching; Weiss, Greg; Women gymnasts PDF IMAGES
54-57	April 1983 Palpitations/Article Rockwell around the clock: Awaiting the great synthesis of rock and classical music By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: All American music: composition in the late twentieth century (Book); Rockwell, John; Music; Music critics PDF IMAGES
67-70	July 1982 Article You're under arrest, Jane Everywoman! Why do radicals wear red suspenders? By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Congresses; New Left; Political satire, American PDF IMAGES

57-60	November 1983 Palpitations/Review Philip Larkin's enormous yes: A connoisseur of doom whose wit refuses to die By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Thwaite, Anthony; Criticism and interpretation; English poetry; Larkin at sixty (Book); Larkin, Philip; Poets, English PDF IMAGES
63-66	September 1983 Palpitations/Review The prince of finesse: Nine hundred pages of criticism prove that John Updike is no air-dancing dandy By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Criticism; English literature; Hugging the shore: essays and criticism (Book); Updike, John PDF IMAGES
62-65	August 1983 Palpitations/Review Mooing in the meadows of love: Confessional novels that give real life a bad name By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Alexandra Freed: a novel (Book); Beautiful women; ugly scenes (Book); Bryan, C.D.B.(Courtland Dixon Barnes); Schwamm, Ellen; Heartburn (Book); How he saved her (Book); Zeidner, Lisa; Ephron, Nora PDF IMAGES
57-59	June 1983 Palpitations/Review Blowing smoke into the zeitgeist: The well-deserved resurrection of Jean Stafford By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Stafford, Jean; The Catherine wheel: a novel (Book); The mountain lion (Book); Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
81-83	May 1983 Palpitations/Review Enter the mummy: Norman Mailer finally gets his Egyptian novel out of his system By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Ancient evenings (Book); Mailer, Norman; Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
61-63	March 1983 Palpitations/Review Call me Bwana: The subject is Africa and William Boyd writes about it like Evelyn Waugh, only nicer By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: A good man in Africa (Book); An ice-cream war (Book); Waugh, Evelyn; Influence; Novelists, English; Boyd, William PDF IMAGES
59-61	February 1983 Palpitations/Review Troubadour of sweat: Muscle-bound and Manhattan-bound By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Novelists, American; Price, Richard; The breaks (Book) PDF IMAGES
54-56	January 1983 Palpitations/Review The sensitive Plante: Telling without kissing By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Plante, David; Difficult women: a memoir of three (Book); Greer, Germaine; Rhys, Jean; Novelists, American; Orwell, Sonia PDF IMAGES
52-55	December 1982 Palpitations/Review The limits of poetic license: The more you learn about Robert Lowell's life, the less you want to read his poems By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Biography; Hamilton, Ian; Poets, American; Lowell, Robert; Robert Lowell: a biography (Book) PDF IMAGES
66-69	November 1982 Palpitations/Review My Harvard, your mama: Misty memoirs by ivy-covered nostalgiacs who should have known better By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Dubois, Diana; Harvard University; My Harvard, my Yale (Book); Sons of Harvard: gay men from the class of 1967 (Book); Marotta, Toby PDF IMAGES
60-63	October 1982 Palpitations/Review Naughty old men: Two veteran novelists who can still bounce the bedsprings By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Erotic literature; Novelists, American; De Vries, Peter; Spackman, W.M. (William Mode) PDF IMAGES
67-69	September 1982 Palpitations/Review Stop me before I write again: Six hundred more pages by Joyce Carol Oates By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: A Bloodsmoor romance (Book); Oates, Joyce Carol; Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
62-65	August 1982 Palpitations/Review Where critics go wrong: The careers of Kenneth Tynan and Otis Ferguson By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Film critics; Tynan, Kenneth; Ferguson, Otis; The Otis Ferguson reader (Book); The sound of two hands clapping (Book); Theater critics PDF IMAGES