Submitted by Richard Cook, Jan 23, 2008 22:58

". . . . on Cook's own showing, Kazin's life and writing seldom harmonized in a way a great writer's does."

One thinks of the harmony in the work and lives of Hemingway (suicide), Faulkner (alcoholism), Mailer (wife-stabbing), Dostoevsky (gambling addiction), Gide (sadism), Styron (clinical depression), Poe (alcoholism and depression), Nietzsche (syphilis and madness), etc., etc. . .

Richard Cook

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