The Hudson Review, October 1st, 2006
Justice to Edmund Wilson
You are a cold, leprous person, Bunny Wilson.
-Margaret Canby
WRITING IN 1995 ON THE OCCASION OF the centennial of Edmund Wilson's birth, Morris Dickstein pointed out that, despite an abundance of memoirs, letters, diaries, and biographies of Wilson, something essential was missing. "What we need, among other things," he said, "is a scrupulous and detailed intellectual biography." Italics mine, but you hear them in the original. He was reacting partly to Jeffrey Meyers' recendy-published and rather racy Edmund Wilson: A Biography (1995), which never fails to quote W...
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