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Product details
- ISBN 9780393317237
- Weight: 514g
- Dimensions: 157 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Dec 1997
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayist—including John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George F. Kennan, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Epstein, and Brad Leithauser—examine aspects of our pan-cultural "dumbing down" and offer both diagnoses of and possible cures for this wasting disease.
John Thornton was a book editor for many years and now works as a literary agent. He lives in New York. Katharine Washburn is an editor and translator. She lives in New York.
