Making It (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman Podhoretz
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Memoir/cultural criticism
- Time of Work: 1945-1965
- Setting: New York and Cambridge, England
- Principal Characters: Norman Podhoretz, Elliot Cohen, Lionel Trilling, Norman Mailer
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Culture, Race, Authors or writers, Jews or Jewish life, Creative process, Publishing or publishers, Ambition, Success or failure, Work or workers
Form and Content
At the age of only thirty-five years, Norman Podhoretz had already been, for several years, the editor of Commentary, an important magazine published under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee, and the author of about one hundred pieces of nonfiction. These reviews and articles of various kinds had been appearing in print since 1963 in periodicals such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and Show. Podhoretz had not yet written a book of his own, however, and felt the urgency to do so. Two...
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