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,
“... train at Rockaway Avenue,’ it begins, ‘and smell the leak out of the men’s room, then the pickles from the stand just below the subway steps, an instant rage comes over me, mixed with dread and some unexpected tenderness.’ The book is lyrical, rhapsodic, extremely tender about the places and people of Kazin’s Brooklyn childhood – and one never ... ”