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James Wolcott

James Wolcott is a columnist for Vanity Fair. His novel, The Catsitters, is out in paperback.

From the London Review dated 19 September 2002

Hoogah-Boogah

  • The Black Veil by Rick Moody

The Black Veil is a study of depression as self-destructive ordeal, ancestral legacy and literary quest. Like a madly quaint Victorian production, ivy seems to sprout from the chock-a-block prose that threatens to turn each paragraph into university brick face. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror (2004)
  • The Catsitters (2001)

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