James Wolcott is the cultural critic for Vanity Fair.
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Southern Discomfort
June 27, 1985
Captain Maximus by Barry Hannah
Lives of the Saints
by Nancy Lemann
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Honest Floozies
November 22, 1984
Symphony for the Devil: The Rolling Stones Story by Philip Norman
Dance with the Devil: The Rolling Stones and Their Times by Stanley Booth
Dylan by Jonathan Cott
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The Secret Sharers
April 14, 1983
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
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Tom Wolfe’s Greatest Hits
November 4, 1982
The Purple Decades: A Reader by Tom Wolfe
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R.I.P.
July 15, 1982
Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein, edited with George Plimpton
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Straw Dogs
June 10, 1982
Virginie: Her Two Lives by John Hawkes
Sabbatical: A Romance by John Barth
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More Kicks than Pricks
January 21, 1982
Nobody Here But Us Chickens by Marvin Mudrick
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Brave New World
November 19, 1981
Easy Travel to Other Planets by Ted Mooney
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Striking Out
August 13, 1981
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Friendship
June 11, 1981
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Sailors Have More Fun
May 14, 1981
Darconville’s Cat by Alexander Theroux
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On the Beat
April 2, 1981
First Reactions: Critical Essays 1968-1979 by Clive James
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
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Who Needs Enemies?
January 22, 1981
Saul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck by Mark Harris
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Tiny Coffins
September 25, 1980
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
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Kvetchy But Unbowed
July 17, 1980
Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler
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Life Among the Ninnies
June 26, 1980
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Seven (1966-1974) edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
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In Like Flynn
May 15, 1980
Errol Flynn: The Untold Story by Charles Higham
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Some Fun!
April 3, 1980
Morgan’s Passing by Anne Tyler
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
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Lightly Toasted
March 6, 1980
Show People: Profiles in Entertainment by Kenneth Tynan
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Active Vonnegut
January 24, 1980
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Mod Apostle
November 22, 1979
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
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TV Guide
April 6, 1978
Television: The First Fifty Years by Jeff Greenfield
Remote Control
by Frank Mankiewicz, by Joel Swerdlow
The Sponsor: Notes on a Modern Potentate by Erik Barnouw
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander