Kevin Kerrane
Autore di The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: University of Delaware
Opere di Kevin Kerrane
Baseball Diamonds: Tales, Traces, Visions, and Voodoo from a Native American Rite (1980) — A cura di — 25 copie
Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism: Translations and Interpretations (1974) — Joint Comp. — 8 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Kerrane, Kevin John
- Data di nascita
- 1941
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- Wheeling Jesuit College (BA|1962)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (MA|1964; PhD|1968) - Attività lavorative
- Professor of Drama, Journalism, Irish Studies
- Organizzazioni
- University of Delaware (since 1967)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 368
- Popolarità
- #65,433
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 18
unfortunately, it is also pretty depressing.
Not that the reporting isn't often impressive; it's the selection of content that can weigh readers down,
getting us off to a rip roaring start with a hanging and moving into Dickens totally without redemption...
it would have been welcome if Whitman had led off the collection. It's one to end wars forever.
"Bronx Slave market" was brutally honest.
"Armies of the Night" offered Mailer's self-absorbed and humorless tedium.
It works as an uneven collection from the opening horror and onto more boring tedium (Tom Wolfe) and into brilliant (John McPhee).
"Juke Joint" was the most readable and Hershey's HIROSHIMA the most powerful.
Wars and violence and more cruelty than can be imagined -
is this the best that humans can come up with after climbing down the trees and crossing the savannas?
It was also surprising not to see Mary McGrory's evocative JFK writing
alongside Jimmy Breslin's lighter "It's an Honor."… (altro)