Hatchet Jobs (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Dale Peck
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Authors or writers, Literature, Twenty-first century, Books, Novelists, Reading, English language
Mirroring many other branches of society, literary reviewing has taken on an increasingly acrimonious tone. Lionel Trilling said: “The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.” The same may be true of modern critics and book reviewers, to judge by the controversy surrounding Dale Peck's Hatchet Jobs.
Peck's Hatchet Jobs reproduces twelve essays that appeared between 1995 and 2002 in The New Republic, the London Review of Books, and The Village Voice. The essays’ prior publication, making...
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