Roger Rosenblatt
Autore di Making Toast
Sull'Autore
Winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, a Peabody Award, an Emmy, and two Polk awards, Roger Rosenblatt is University Professor of Writing at Long Island University's Southampton College
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1940
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
columnist
editor
professor - Organizzazioni
- The New Republic
The Washington Post
Time
U.S. News & World Report
Life
Stony Brook University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2015)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 28
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 1,778
- Popolarità
- #14,481
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 114
- ISBN
- 88
- Lingue
- 4
I know Rosenblatt gets All The Praise for his “memoirs that read like poetry,” but I just…don’t see it. It feels like he’s trying too hard to be lyrical and clever, so much so that it distracts from the narrative he’s trying so hard to make seem effortless. And the narrative itself is scattered all over the place; he hops from one left-field reference to the next without much connection. If you’re looking for a naturally effortless, lyrical memoir, try Stephen Fry, and if you crave an impressive amount of trivia that seems hodgepodge but is seamlessly woven together, try Bill Bryson. As for me, I found neither here.… (altro)