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...this richly researched account of the case, Author Charles L. Mee Jr. Kazin (Meeting at Potsdam, A Visit to Haldeman and Other States of Mind) enters the territory of the brain like a 16th century explorer, carefully and vividly explaining the 100 billion neurons, the axons and synapses and neurotransmitters- all of the brain's intellectual brightwork, an area still so profoundly mysterious as to be almost unthinkable...
...YORK JEW by Alfred Kazin Knopf, 307 pages...
Though his title suggests a sociological treatise or a group portrait, Critic Alfred Kazin's New York Jew is himself. Luckily, the subject is interesting. Kazin has been a member in good standing of the New York intelligentsia ever since 1942 when he published On Native Grounds, a groundbreaking study of modern American literature. The friends and acquaintances he has made since then form an illustrious clan of writers and thinkers, and New York Jew is full of them...
...Kazin's portraits of these people are usually thoughtful and affectionate, often with a redeeming touch of asperity. He visits T.S. Eliot and finds "a man easily cornered and deathly afraid of being cornered." Edmund Wilson is presented as an Everest of intelligence, taste and dedication, but Kazin can also write: "His greatest interest in any subject was his learning...
...time when Farrell was a lodestar of the non-Communist left. His Studs Lonigan trilogy is a genre classic, a cluttered memoir of graceless Irish poor whose lyricism and potential are crushed in the struggle to survive. H.L. Mencken called their creator "the best living novelist," and Critic Alfred Kazin noted respectfully that "Farrell was the archetypal novelist of the crisis and its inflictions ... all the rawness and distemper of the thirties seem to live in [his] novels...