On the other (hand), it (Kazin's diaries) lays bare the appalling nature of raw material untransformed by art. Taken all in all, this book is a remarkable demonstration of how good writing struggles to emerge from the inner chaos with which we all live and that only a writer as talented as Alfred Kazin can bring to its knees...
Vivian Gornick on Alfred Kazin's massive diaries.
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