His Generation
Keith Gessen: A Sad Old Literary Man, 19 June 2008
Alfred Kazin: A Biography
by Richard Cook.
Yale, 452 pp., £25, March 2008,978 0 300 11505 5 Show More
by Richard Cook.
Yale, 452 pp., £25, March 2008,
“... Jews to get divorced,’ he once said, ‘the first ones to have sex’ – to which his ex-wife Ann Birstein responded: ‘Talk about self-made men’), and it was through his reviews that he was able to respond to the shifts in the fates of that generation. When the Menshevik New Leader began to support the McCarthyist crusade in the early 1950s, Kazin ... ”