Lucking Out by James Wolcott

Lucking Out by James Wolcott

From one of our most admired (and feared) cultural critics, a memoir that captures all the gritty, grubby glamour of New York in the awful/wonderful Seventies.

In the autumn of 1972, a very young and green James Wolcott arrived in New York from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as Downtown became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style. This portrait of a critic as a young man is also a rollicking, acutely observant portrait of a legendary time and place. Mixing grit and glitter in just the right proportions, suffused with affection for the talented and sometimes half-crazed denizens of the scene, it will make readers long for a time when you really could get mugged around here.

James Wolcott is a long-time Vanity Fair culture critic and blogger. He is the author of the highly praised memoir Lucking Out, and his articles, features, and reviews have appeared in journals such as The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and others. He's also the author of The Catsitters, a book, and Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants, a political satire. He and his writer wife Laura Jacobs live in New York.

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ISBN 13	9780385527781
ISBN 10	0385527780
Title	Lucking Out
Author	James Wolcott
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	2011-11-21
Number of pages	258
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