James Wolcott Audio Books

A career-spanning collection of critical essays and cultural journalism from one of the most acute, entertaining, and sometimes acerbic (but in a good way) critics of our time.

On an extravagant evening in May 100 years ago, the scandalous premiere of The Rite of Spring rocked the epicenter of culture and fashion - Paris - and sent aftershocks across the world.

In a hilarious work of fiendish wit and scathing relevance, Vanity Fair's famously acerbic cultural critic takes on the so-called news establishment and dismembers the "news eunuchs" limb by limb.

Novelist, essayist, memoirist, playwright, screenwriter, actor, sexual liberationist, traitor to his class, balloon-popper of the pious and pretentious, the country's last true man of letters (they should now retire the title), Gore Vidal belonged to the Greatest Generation of American authors, and was the last great one to go.

It was the autumn of 1972 when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived in New York, full of literary dreams and having no idea what was about to hit him....