Review
"Both men did of course dramatize them-selves endlessly. They loved, as Bruccoli re-minds us, 'to act out their own mytholo-gies. One played the ruined genius, the other played the titan.' Bruccoli sorts out the play-acting for us. . . . Both Scott and Ernest cared passionately for their profession. Be-cause they also cared about each other, each had a keen awareness of the other's talents and shortcomings, praising the former and seeking to correct the latter. . . . It is this kind of technical comment rather than the 'try-ing to walk over each other with cleats on' (in Scott's phrase) that makes Matthew Bruc-coli's latest contribution so useful and so welcome to all who care about the writer's craft."--"Christian Science Monitor"
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About the Author
Matthew J. Bruccoli is Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.
