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Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating collection includes Malcolm's now iconic essay about the painter David Salle.

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and

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      Publisher: Granta Books
      Publication Date: 07/08/2014
      ISBN13: 9781847088567, 978-1847088567
      ISBN10: 1847088562

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      Book Synopsis
      Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating collection includes Malcolm's now iconic essay about the painter David Salle.

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