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Scott Bradfield
Book Review
Dorothy Parker’s Hollywood hell
Though well paid as a screenwriter, Parker lampooned Hollywood’s moguls, dubbing MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Merde as she slipped further into alcoholism
By Scott Bradfield
Book Review
Was anything off-limits for ‘the usual gang of idiots’ at
MAD
?
The magazine our parents were once afraid to buy us is now being praised in a book published by the Library of America
By Scott Bradfield
Book Review
Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson’s marriage of radical minds
With A Wilder Shore, Camille Peri convincingly argues that there was nothing remotely ordinary about either of these people
By Scott Bradfield
Book Review
A glorious record of S.J. Perelman’s essays
The great writer could misspend his youth with the best of them
By Scott Bradfield
Book Review
Carson McCullers’s lonely passion
Mary Dearborn’s
Carson McCullers: A Life
is well-written, hefty, responsible and absorbing
By Scott Bradfield
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