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"You must be out of your mind!": Don Quixote in America.(Interviews with Dwight Macdonald)(A Moral Temper: The Letters of Dwight Macdonald)(Book Review)
Interviews with Dwight Macdonald, edited by Michael Wreszin; University Press of Mississippi, 2003, about $80.
A Moral Temper: The Letters of Dwight Macdonald, edited by Michael Wreszin; Ivan R. Dee, 2002, about $70.
ONE MEASURE of the American writer Dwight Macdonald (1906-82) is the anger his name can still arouse. It may not matter much that his early critics included Leon Trotsky (who called him the floating kidney of the working class--a conduit for all sorts of revolutionary excreta) or Ezra Pound (who called him an ignorant ape). To be insulted by both the Butcher of Kronstadt and by Mussolini's shock jock is a sort of honour. (Seeking still more ...
- Dwight Macdonald: sunburned by ideas.
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Epstein, Joseph November 1, 2001 700+ words
...culture in America, Dwight Macdonald, long established...always wrong." Dwight Macdonald was the intellectual...Foundation in The New Yorker in 1954, he put...once greatly admired Dwight Macdonald, and I esteemed...
- Dwight and left: the centenary of Dwight Macdonald's birth should inspire more...
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Rodden, John Rossi, Jack March 1, 2006 700+ words
...speculated whether Dwight Macdonald might become "The...contrast, the name Dwight Macdonald often occasions the...the years to The New Yorker, The New Republic...consciences like Dwight Macdonald's. BORN INTO A...
- A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Brightman, Carol June 6, 1994 700+ words
...told her he thought Dwight Macdonald was a "hoax...flagellation. Dwight Macdonald's efforts to get...consequence. What does Dwight Macdonald want? one might...culture critic at The New Yorker, Macdonald wondered...
- Rebel with a cause: Dwight Macdonald remembered.(Short Take)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Rodden, John Rossi, John February 24, 2006 700+ words
...the centenary of the birth of Dwight Macdonald. From 1940 to 1975, Macdonald...in a 1958 America article ("Dwight Macdonald: Another Orwell?"), described...Harrington. In Macdonald's 1952 New Yorker profile of Day (it ran for...
- A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight MacDonald.
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Worth, Robert August 19, 1994 700+ words
Dwight MacDonald embodied that lasting contradiction...Politics and became a staff writer for the New Yorker where he began his assault on mass and...socialist named Michael Harrington for the New Yorker. Thanks largely to that review, Harrington...
- The irrepressible critic. (Potpourri).(political journalist Dwight...
- Magazine article from: Change Orlans, Harold March 1, 2002 700+ words
...political and cultural journalist, critic, and provocateur Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982) comes to rambunctious life again in his letters...wing enthusiasms (and marriage) ebbed, he moved to the New Yorker (1952-1974) and called himself a "conservative anarchist...
- The New Yorker Entrusts 81 Years of Content to Hitachi Hard Drives.
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 8, 2006 700+ words
...Searchable, Pocket-Sized Access to "The Complete New Yorker" Digital Archives SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Hitachi...been selected to deliver 81 years worth of The New Yorker content. "The Complete New Yorker" will be available to consumers on a handheld...
- The Big New Yorker Pizza Makes Nationwide Debut Today as Pizza Hut's Largest...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 26, 1999 700+ words
New York City Launches The Big New Yorker Pizza Nationwide: Mayor Rudy Giuliani...Donald Trump Star in Pizza Hut's The Big New Yorker Pizza Advertising That Debuts on Football...Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Big New Yorker Pizza from Pizza Hut makes its nationwide...
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