Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives: A Micro-Review/Essay
Paeans. Nineteen of them. An essayist removes his hat, lowers his head, and says, “Thanks.” He convinces us that his subjects are great and, in the process, we perceive that the essayist himself is great. Like recognizes like.
Max Beerbohm’s prose is difficult to read these days, but Joseph Epstein makes you want to read him just so you can get close to…
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