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    James Wolcott

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    At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #break #fevers #full-scale #inside #into

    Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #become #been #design #iconography #like

    Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #broadway #deplore #imaginative #influx #machine

    Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #even #life #momentous #most #owner

    Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #everyone #his #nostalgia #own

    How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #carrying #digital #flame #get #how

    I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #beauties #contain #fiction #globe #great

    I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #aware #big #brain #build #cite

    If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #anymore #because #behind #broadway #fashion

    A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #dark #door #down #drop #election






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    In addition he recently contributed the foreword to Geoffrey Beene's forthcoming book Identity. Career
    Since arriving in New York Wolcott has been a columnist on media and pop culture for such publications as Esquire Harper's Magazine The New Yorker The New York Review of Books and New York Magazine. From there he moved to New York City to work at The Village Voice.

    James Wolcott (born 10 December 1952 in Baltimore Maryland) is an American journalist known for his critique of contemporary media. Wolcott is the cultural critic for Vanity Fair and contributes to The New Yorker.

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