Sondheim isn’t a man to cloud the expression of his judgments with considerations like politeness or collegial complicity. Were his rivals still alive, they might want to take out a contract on him.
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Year-End Fiction Favorites: 2010
Why do we make lists?
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C.D. Wright’s Masterpiece
History as a subject reads best when it is both documented and re-imagined
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Ronin Poet: Kalkbrenner’s Foul Feelings
Brian Kalkbrenner’s Foul Feelings is the closest thing in English, spiritually, to haiku that I can possibly think of.
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Civil Rights Moonwalk: Michael Jackson, Armond White, and Democracy
A focus on the human person allows White to cut right to the heart of cultural issues without getting lost or tossed around in the media firestorms that accompany cultural events.