Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

Janet Malcolm

• Title

  Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

• Date 2013
• ISBN 9781847088468
• Publisher London: Granta Books
• Description 298; 9.5 in
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, Dan Fox Collection
• Summary

  Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating collection includes Malcolm's now iconic essay about the painter David Salle (Google Books). 

• Tags Art criticism, Essay collection, Literary criticism, Modernism