Schlagwort: Richard Kreitner

Nasty, brash and haughty

IN OCTOBER 1865, a 22-year-old wordsmith living on Ashburton Place, behind the Massachusetts State House, filed what has to be one of the nastiest book reviews ever published. The volume before him was “an insult to art,” a brash and haughty Henry James told readers… Continue Reading „Nasty, brash and haughty“