RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewAdmittedly, the size of the book is a bit daunting. Fear not. It is a treasure trove for scholars and general readers alike ... These framing essays are critical for navigating this massive volume, as are the annotations accompanying the individual letters. The collection offers an intimate portrait of the writer and intellectual ... The thinker and writer who emerges in these pages is a complicated, funny, intense, fiercely intelligent, ambitious, irreverent and disturbing figure.
