Linda S. (GoneToTheDogs) reviewed on 1/19/2009 + 625 more book reviews

This amusing and intelligent volume of reminiscences offers a personal look at some of the 20th century's most successful writers, artists, and architects. Gill, a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of several books, has been present on the New York art scene for decades and seems to have known nearly every important artist or intellectual who lived or visited there, from Joseph Alsop to Louise Nevelson. In this collection of 45 vignettes, Gill is frank and witty, yet sometimes critical, such as when he accuses Joseph Campbell of having bigoted and ultra-conservative views.

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