paperback, by Norman Podhoretz — In nearly forty years on the American literary scene, Norman Podhoretz has established himself as one of our most perceptive social critics. Now, in this moving and witty memoir, he shows another side—as a natural born storyteller with a sure sense of character and anecdote and the ability to construct a compelling personal narrative that opens a window onto an exemplary American[...]
paperback, by Norman Podhoretz — Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Hanna Arendt, Norman Mailer, and Lillian Hellman—among the things these writers and intellectuals all had in common is Norman Podhoretz. With them Podhoretz was part of "The Family," as the core group of New York intellectuals of the 50s and 60s came to be known. And in Ex-Friends, he has written the intellectual equivalent of a family[...]
