October 2011
6 posts
Your new favorite story about the intellectual...
[Some of Kael’s imbroglios help illuminate the boundaries of her taste. Her spat with Joan Didion is one example. Kael and Didion had parallel flight paths: both were Northern California kids who had close-read Henry James at Berkeley, gone East to get their bearings, and returned to California to forge their styles. Both were exceptionally sensitive to the cultural atomization of the sixties and...
“I sometimes laugh as I stir my witch’s brew, putting in the onions and the herbs...”
– Sheilah Graham, Hollywood. Via The New Yorker.