Against the American Grain

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AGAINST THE AMERICAN GRAIN
jy Dwight Macdonald
"Dwight Macdonald has made the whole province of culture
the subject of his wit____The book is full of verve and vinegar; it
is astute, quarrelsome, funny "
—Ihab Hassan, Saturday Review
"Macdonald, I should say, is about the best living essayist, with the possible exception of Edmund Wilson Macdonald's angular thoughts and style are to me inexhaustibly pleasing and funny . . ."
—Malcolm Muggeridge, Esquire
"Macdonald succeeds at the art of destroying bad high culture, those literary and critical works that fail to live up to the greatness to which they pretend. In this genre, he exhibits his best style, a dynamic synthesis of biting wit and concise polemic, and his greatest critical talent, a sensitivity to textual idiocies."
—Richard C. Kostelanetz, The Progressive
"Mr. Macdonald is an admirable writer. He has a mouth like a steel trap. When it closes on some piece of pretentious nonsense, the nonsense is chewed up and... Tovább

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AGAINST THE AMERICAN GRAIN
jy Dwight Macdonald
"Dwight Macdonald has made the whole province of culture
the subject of his wit____The book is full of verve and vinegar; it
is astute, quarrelsome, funny "
—Ihab Hassan, Saturday Review
"Macdonald, I should say, is about the best living essayist, with the possible exception of Edmund Wilson Macdonald's angular thoughts and style are to me inexhaustibly pleasing and funny . . ."
—Malcolm Muggeridge, Esquire
"Macdonald succeeds at the art of destroying bad high culture, those literary and critical works that fail to live up to the greatness to which they pretend. In this genre, he exhibits his best style, a dynamic synthesis of biting wit and concise polemic, and his greatest critical talent, a sensitivity to textual idiocies."
—Richard C. Kostelanetz, The Progressive
"Mr. Macdonald is an admirable writer. He has a mouth like a steel trap. When it closes on some piece of pretentious nonsense, the nonsense is chewed up and spat out with a phrase that should make the product unvendible or uneatable—whichever metaphor one prefers. I marked passage after passage in this collection, not always because I agreed, but because I was delighted with Mr. Macdonald's deadly skill." -D. W. Brogan, The Yale Review
"Mr. Macdonald's task is the one he has chosen for himself and the one he carries out so brilliantly—to tell what he has found in his life and in the books he reads, and to give us the great pleasure and benefit of seeing him put on his literary performances in public." -Harold J. Taylor, The New York Herald Tribune
"This critic stands forth at his best as a keen, effective witness against meretriciousness, and, as such, an invaluable literary man."
—Benjamin DeMott, Harper's Magazine
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