Thursday, 4 February 2016

... a review of a reviewer.

She seems at time to have a form of prose hypochondria, palpating herself all over to see if she has a thought, and publishing every word of the process by which she checks to see whether or not she has one ...

—Renata Adler, writing of Pauline Kael, in “House Critic,” The New York Review of Books, August 14, 1980.

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