The literary life and other curiosities /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking Press,
1981.
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Table of Contents:
- Writing: the act and the art
- The literary life: writers and authors
- Poets and poetasters
- Wits, wags, and literary weasels
- Critics, censors, bowdlerizers, and book burners
- Of books and blurbs
- Art imitates life (from prototype to linotype) and vise versa
- The world of words: from letters to language
- The worst of all possible words.