A Book Review by Janet Malcolm
Of course you should click through and read it. It's a book review by Janet Malcolm. Yes, Janet Malcolm. In the New York Review of Books. The Master Writer of the City is Malcolm's review of a biography of a writer, Joseph Mitchell. And in the course of the review Malcolm writes about writing. That alone makes it worth your while. Apparently the biographer discovers that some of Mitchell's non-fiction pieces in fact included quite a lot of fiction. Malcolm ostensibly does not approve of such creative flights. Or does [...]