Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CRITICISM: LIFE STORIES Essays in Biography by Joseph Epstein (Axios Press) Essayist Joseph Epstein is a writer whose flaws are difficult to separate from ...
Max Beerbohm once observed there were some writers who have been spoiled by their desire to do “important” work: “Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls.
When I first interviewed Judith Jones in 1984 for a newspaper story about a book on New England cooking she and her husband, Evan, were working on, she let him do the talking. Fit and petite, Jones ...