PositiveLiberFor those of us with a toadying and effete interest in midcentury intellectual life, the book is worth reading for the gossip alone ... The ensemble is large, the details extraneous and sometimes indulgent ... It is touching to watch an unusually wise and egoless writer reproduce his anxious adoration toward someone who never stopped being mythic, even when she disappointed him ... He writes to honor the people who made his writing life possible.
