Crazy Salad Plus Nine

Résumé du livre

"For a while there I wrote about women. I started in 1972, when the women's movement was in a period of frenzied activity, and I stopped in 1974, when it had moved into what we liked to call a period of consolidation. I wrote about women once a month, and then put it together as 'Crazy Salad'. The title of the collection comes from some lines in a Yeats poem... Anyway, for a while there I wrote a column about women. And then I wrote a column about the press -- which was collected as 'Scribble Scribble.' I had a chance as a columnist to use a set of muscles I had never used as a newspaper reporter or magazine writer; I wound up comfortable with the essay form and oddly grateful for the discipline it imposes. Most of the articles published here first appeared in 'Esquire' magazine. Some of them I believe as sincerely as I did the day I finished writing them, and some are written by someone I used to be. Some of them seem dated -- which is inevitable with magazine pieces; some of them that seem dated nonetheless have a kind of quaint historical value. Enough. Here they are."--