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Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas
Adam Kirsch
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Description for Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas
Hardcover. A collection of essays from a "great poet-critic-intellectual" (Daily Beast). Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 151 x 30. Weight in Grams: 508.
Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute—[a] critic of the very first order" (The New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin to novelists including E.M. Forster, David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.
Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute—[a] critic of the very first order" (The New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin to novelists including E.M. Forster, David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393243468
SKU
V9780393243468
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About Adam Kirsch
Adam Kirsch is the author of several books of poetry and criticism, including Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer? and The People and the Books: Eighteen Classics of Jewish Literature. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Kirsch is an editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section and has written for publications including The New Yorker and Tablet. He lives ... Read more
Reviews for Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas
"It is fashionable today to mourn the paucity of public intellectuals in America. Meet Adam Kirsch, one of the very best literary/cultural critics writing today-a critic in the grand tradition of Edmund Wilson or Lionel Trilling. Rocket and Lightship is a delight to read."
Marjorie Perloff "Adam Kirsch is one of the best of our cultural and literary critics. ... Read more
Marjorie Perloff "Adam Kirsch is one of the best of our cultural and literary critics. ... Read more