Malcolm Cowley, poet, critic, editor, cultural commentator, translator--in the exact professional sense, literary historian--is best known for painting in Exile's Return (1934, revised 1951) the accep...
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Malcolm Cowley is best known as a critic and literary historian whose sound judgment, understanding, and polished prose have earned him in a long lifetime of working "at the writer's trade," a place b...
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ALFRED KAZIN: A BIOGRAPHY By Richard M. Cook Yale University Press, 452 pages, $35
With the death of Alfred Kazin in 1998 at the age of 83, the kind of high-end literary journalism that he’d ...
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Manya Callahan, manager of the Barnes & Noble Downtown store, sees them all the time, young and old, looking for books by Lowell's most famous citizen."They're usually wearing backpacks and the...
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Malcolm Cowley
Score-Settling and Book Chat: A Great Critic, Sustained By His City
