Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

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Here’s a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one among our so much admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that imagine the life and work of one of the so much influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, Survival in Auschwitz; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband’s suicide, dictated the witty and classic How to Cook a Wolf; and plenty of different subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints is indispensable reading at the making of art—and the courage, perseverance, and, once in a while, dumb success that it requires.

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