...obvious. Writing a damning review may be bad for your soul, but it gees up the liver. As Wilfrid Sheed once wrote about Hemingway: People who have never tried it have no idea how pleasant being nasty can be; and being good at it is the only motive...
...obvious. Writing a damning review may be bad for your soul, but it gees up the liver. As Wilfrid Sheed once wrote about Hemingway: People who have never tried it have no idea how pleasant being nasty can be; and being good at it is the only motive...
...of Wolcott is inseparable from his luminosity. As critic-stylists go, Wolcott is up there with John Leonard and Wilfrid Sheed, two heroes he pays passing homage to. True, the prose jams up in places with its relentless striving for effect, the makeshift...
...anti-reading attitudes foisted on newer generations of the reading public by some of the factors outlined above. As Wilfrid Sheed correctly observes in his stimulating essay entitled “A Thought a Day Isn’t Enough”, the book buying and book reading...
...job draws as much excited attention as a good book any day.” That’s the late, great critic Wilfrid Sheed, from reviewers should follow for “smoother, more satisfying demolitions.” On Feb. 7, The Omnivore, a British Web site that aggregates...
...job draws as much excited attention as a good book any day.” That’s the late, great critic Wilfrid Sheed, from a 1964 piece in which he laid out six rules reviewers should follow for “smoother, more satisfying demolitions.” On Feb. 7, The...
...stand alongside The Mackerel Plaza , Kurp suggested J. F. Powers’s Wheat That Springeth Green . I countered with Wilfrid Sheed (see his novel The Hack , for example). Space might even be found for The Ecstasy of Owen Muir by Ring Lardner Jr. Kurp and...