As the book’s first-name approach conveys, Wiencek is caught up in the charisma of his subjects and in their enthusiasms, for art and for one another ... Charmed though he is by the two, Wiencek gives their bad habits their due.
Mr. Wiencek...doesn’t gloss over White’s brutality ...
While Mr. Wiencek doesn’t make any apologies for White, the absence of any larger evaluative framework in this book leaves many questions unanswered.
