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Julianne Werlin's avatar

"Pritchett never rubs life up the wrong way, and is happy to leave only a faint shine on its fur." All right that's good.

You're getting in pretty deep with all this Renaissance stuff, it seems to me.

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Henry Begler's avatar

Yes god willing I have the time to read and process it all. It's such an incredibly fascinating period but really it all just comes out of loving shakespeare for me.

And yeah I wish the Amis collection had a bit less fluff (there's a lot of short pieces of him reviewing Hilary Clinton and stuff like that, not very interesting), but when it's good it's some of the best critical writing I've ever read. I like critics who anatomize the work with minute accuracy but my favorites are the ones that are just pure joy and fun.

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