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Guests | October 15, 2009

Michelle Wildgen: IMG A Few Initial and Not-Comprehensive Meditations on Group Novels

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I am a sucker for a book about a group. What reminded me of this was Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age, her homage to Mary McCarthy's endlessly re-readable... Continue »

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Siege of the Arts

by Robert Brustein

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Mr. Brustein turns his witty, penetrating, and sometimes scathing gaze on the various scourges afflicting high art in America, from the Supreme Court's endorsement of NEA content restrictions, through the breakdown of taste and standards as a consequence of political correctness, to the failure of arts education and the exaltation of amateurism. Mr. Brustein also celebrates the best that is being thought and written in America, analyzing the major theatrical achievements of the decade.
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ISBN:
9781566633802
Subtitle:
Collected Writings 1994-2001
Author:
Brustein, Robert Sanford
Author:
Brustein, Robert
Publisher:
Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Subject:
Theater
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Theater - History & Criticism
Subject:
Theater -- United States.
Subject:
Theater -- United States -- Reviews.
Publication Date:
October 2001
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
908x588x106 117
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