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1) A hitch in time: reflections ready for reconsideration

Author

Hitchens, Christopher

Publisher

Twelve

Pub. Date

2024.

Language

English

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This collection of essays, reviews, diary entries and letters from the late renowned writer includes his thoughts on Salman Rushdie, being spanked by Margaret Thatcher in The House of Lords, and taking his son to the Oscars.

2) Lucking out: my life getting down and semi-dirty in seventies New York

Author

Wolcott, James

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

[2011]

Language

English

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""How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell." That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as "Downtown" became...

3) Vanity fair's writers on writers

Publisher

Penguin Books

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

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Offers essays from Vanity Fair writers on specific authors, explaining their influence on other writers and the culture at large.

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James Wolcott

1) A hitch in time: reflections ready for reconsideration

2) Lucking out: my life getting down and semi-dirty in seventies New York

3) Vanity fair's writers on writers