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"I've been writing fiction since I was very young, but I'm not sure there's such a profession as writing fiction. There is a very precarious niche available to five or seven people in the world at any one moment. But there isn't any secure living in...
In a collection of ominous essays and magazine reprints, Handlin charges his profession with moral violations. He grades each period of historical study and finds the record worsening with time--giving the lowest marks to the 1970s. But historians began slipping up much earlier, altogether missing the goal of accurate...
First, the charms. The flamboyance and imagination which raise Sagan to something of a '70s cult figure rescue a lot a Broca's Brain. Sagan recounts, for example, a colorful and enthusiastic history of his profession, emphasizing the incredibly rapid blossoming of American astronomy. In an equally lively essay, he...
Sagan has a history of this sort of dabbling. First swept into the public eye on the coat-tails of the Viking missions to Mars as one of the expedition's moving minds, his impudence, optimism, and imagination, won him national attention. Johnny Carson has toasted him. The New Yorker...
The associations in Letters, however, come too thick, and it's a matter of chance which one your brain happens to pick out at any moment. As sheaves of pages pass by, Barth concentrates these associations in several arbitrary subjects: the War of 1812, which somehow prefigures a Second American...