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Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head

Conversations with Tyler

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Kenneth Tynan: Overrated or Underrated?

Kenneth Tynan was a theater critic in England who came to America and wrote for the New Yorker. As he got older, his writing became planar and calmer because it stopped jumping about trying to arrest your attention. Essie: I think there is something about taste today that prefers a clearer, sort of more limpid kind of prose.

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