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JClickbaited: James Wolcott · Rudy Then and Rudy Now · LRB 16 February 2023
Flannsplainer: Highly entertaining.
Rudy Then and Rudy Now
seschmidt20: Rudy Then and Rudy Now
D_Khunne: I was thinking about 1900 because of the Tarantino news. James Wolcott writing in his autobiography about seeing 1900 with Pauline Kael and leaning over to her and saying something like, if Sutherland kills that cat, I’m outta here.
justinmcguirk: "Of all of the patsies in the Trump orbit, none has squandered as much moral and reputational capital as Giuliani and secured for himself such a skanky place in history." [This piece is so much fun]
halfeatenmind: Rudy Then and Rudy Now
2rustic: , Giuliani has managed to remain a political burlesque act, clinging to the slim consolation that tawdry fame is better than no fame at all.
EdDunkelsGhost: This is a brilliant piece on Giuliani
James Wolcott · Rudy Then and Rudy Now · LRB 16 February 2023
Bezesteni: Must read especially for the remaining admirers of that parody of a politician
mbalter: James Wolcott · Rudy Then and Rudy Now · [I recommend this for some light relief, a review of the latest book about one of America’s most disgusting, pathetic public figures]
RayBoomhower: Here's to Ross, E. B. White, James Thurber, Wolcott Gibbs, A. J Liebling, Joseph Mitchell, St. Clair McElway, Janet Flanner, and all those other great writers of yesteryear.
QulshTM: Rudy Then and Rudy Now.
RayPride: James Wolcott speaks of grizzled, grisly Rudy
hkanji: Giuliani learned the hard way that even the most popular, high-profile New York politician doesn’t play well in the yonder reaches of mid-America
RayPride: James Wolcott on a Great American Failure: “Rudy Then and Rudy Now”
PreAnteDiluvian: "Few of those who lived in New York City during the Mussolini reign of mayor Rudolph Giuliani would have pictured him playing out his sallow years as a dwarfish punchline – a cheap laugh"
Whebblewhite: James Wolcott's essay in the LRB on the rise and fall of Rudy Giulani is an absolute banger.
markrlowe: Absolutely brutal take down, but has any politician done so much to sully his own good name? (Red Ken maybe?)
StephenKuusisto: He once offered me the job of disability commissioner for NYC. I ran away…
Rudy Then and Rudy Now
marxnd: Rudy Then and Rudy Now
Designwriter57: Sometimes reading a review is better than the book/movie itself. This is James Wolcott at the top of his game, explaining how Rudy became inept consiglieri to Trump's Godfather wannabe.
MichaelSctMoore: Nice to see James Wolcott vivisecting Giuliani and a few of his fellow toadies to remind us of the dangerous political slapstick we’ve recently-but-not-quite escaped.
dubiousraves: We don't hear enough from this superb, hilarious writer, so here's a corker on a new Giuliani book.
AlexisLipsitz: Rudy Then and Rudy Now
rcscribbler: Have read some lovely lengthy Tom Verlaine tributes these past few days, eg James Wolcott in the LRB - all of which bear out my Saturday afternoon sighting of Tom in the East Village in 1981 carrying that huge pile of books, everyone else it seems felt similarly blessed ❤️
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leecemee: I'm reading James Wolcott: Rudy Then and Rudy Now via the London Review of Books app
matthewkassel: James Wolcott on Rudy Giuliani.
dj_forrester: James Wolcott · Rudy Then and Rudy Now · LRB 16 February 2023
thecob82: James Wolcott, in high form, on Giuliani. Rudy Then and Rudy Now.
magiciansbook: James Wolcott on Rudy Then and Rudy Now, is a dream assignment:
pzwarne: 'The Burger King of Palm Beach'. Love it.
andrewkirtzman: From James Wolcott’s review of “Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor” in the London Review of Books:
“A longtime New York journalist and television host, Kirtzman is the author of the thundering “Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City” to which this is the sequel.
GeorgeSzamuely: James Wolcott's memories of Tom Verlaine.
LRB: ‘Up-close enabled you to observe Verlaine like a super 8 camera: the deep knee bends through a song’s mounting crescendo, the flickering eyelids, the wary side glances, the quick grins, the climactic close that seemed to wash out to sea.’
James Wolcott:
rj_2: James Wolcott | Remembering Tom Verlaine · LRB 3 February 2023
LRB: ‘Perhaps I was foolishly pleased that he felt he knew me well enough to pretend to shove me to certain death on the tracks. It could have been just his funny way of saying hi.’
James Wolcott remembers Tom Verlaine:
_akurath_: NIMRIT DESERVES TROPHY
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. - James Wolcott..
seanhowe: "Tom Verlaine looks like Artaud from Dreyer’s 'The Passion of Joan of Arc.'"
—James Wolcott, 1976
"He has such a Egon Schiele look."
—Patti Smith, 1974
RRepoz: RIP, Tom Verlaine: From my 70's Punk/Psychotronic collection: Love comes in blurb spurts so here's an Oct. 1975 Village Voice quickie review of "Little Johnny Jewel" by James Wolcott (C+hristgau musta been off getting his Schwinn tuned up) and a cool Chuck Pulin pic.
DavidCranmerUn1: Princeton in 1769 and 1765 by James Madison, William Paterson, Oliver Ellsworth, and Aaron Burr.
Oliver Ellsworth had nine children including the twins William Wolcott Ellsworth, who married Noah Webster's daughter, served in Congress and became the governor of Connecticut; and
DavidCranmerUn1: Reconstruction Finance Corporation Administrator (1951–1952).
At the urging of his father-in-law James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., a former Republican Speaker of the New York State Assembly and U.S. Senator from New York, Symington decided to run for the U.S. Senate.
thegoodmarty: Lucking Out: my life getting down and semi-dirty in seventies New York
by James Wolcott
Esquire didn’t find himself under the same roof enjoying freebies (there were freebies then—buffets even) as the rock critic of The New Yorker.
TrueQuotation: Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. — James Wolcott
borer94ilaw: Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker ZJW8231
DavidCranmerUn1: of his father-in-law James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., a former Republican Speaker of the New York State Assembly and U.S. Senator from New York, Symington decided to run for the U.S. Senate.
Wadsworth was married to Alice Evelyn Hay (1880–1960). She was the daughter of former
sj_barlament: Listen to your friend James Wolcott.
chalerman: WADSWORTH, James Wolcott, Jr., (son of James Wadsworth and father–in–law of Stuart Symington), a Senator and a Representative from New York; born in Geneseo, N.Y., August 12, 1877;
stokes59boneh: Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker QOUCUCC
nytimesbooks: "In its cheerful plunder of the rackety edges of American life, reality TV takes up where Tom Wolfe left off." James Wolcott reviews Danielle J. Lindemann's sociological study of the genre we can't stop watching.
bookforum: James Wolcott on Donald Barthelme
DavidCranmerUn1: Irénée du Pont, John J. Raskob, Jouett Shouse, Grayson M.P. Murphy, and James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. Its publicity campaign, begun in 1928, helped mobilize growing opposition to the 18th Amendment.
Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, alleged in November 1934 that
simonowens: He's a 10, but he just read a 2001 magazine profile of James Wolcott.
bsgorrie: Roky Erickson in 1969 during his incarceration at Rusk State Hospital. The guy holding the mic is James Gordon Wolcott, Google if you're feeling ghoulish
stokes59boneh: Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker DBHPHQ0
KenAyu_RG: After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.
-James Wolcott
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RealEmirHan: Times Square night in 1970.
photo by James Wolcott.
stokes59boneh: Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker ON3NX4U
Bob_Stinson1234: How The Deuce Gets Gritty, Grimy, Glorious 70s New York Right | Vanity Fair
Bob_Stinson1234: How The Deuce Gets Gritty, Grimy, Glorious 70s New York Right | Vanity Fair
_ayyumii: Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late--century iconography would have been pauperized.
-James Wolcott
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borer94ilaw: Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker KPGSHXI
nugetwisdom: HIGH EXPECTATIONS WEREN'T NURTURED IN MY NECK OF NOWHERE BACK THEN - CHILDREN WEREN'T FAWNED OVER FROM AN EARLY AGE AS 'GIFTED' AND GROOMED FOR A PRIZEWINNING FUTURE SELF-ESTEEM WAS CONSIDERED SOMETHING YOU HAD TO PICK FROM THE GARDEN YOURSELF. James Wolcott
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sulymanodore5: High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
-James Wolcott
_michaelberlin: A 1993 piece where James Wolcott juxtaposes Jerry Seinfield (and Seinfeld’s humor) and Howard Stern (and Stern's humor), hailing the former and slating the latter, on moral basis precisely.
shollyman212: High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
-James Wolcott
rep_am: Pelletier: James Sr. and Germaine I. (Gauthier) Pelletier of Wolcott will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with a party given by their children and grandchildren in Wolcott. They will renew their […]
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yudel: "His born-again-Christian stance proved to be the most damaging conversion since the Jewish cabalistic messiah Sabbatai Zevi bowed to the blade and embraced Islam in 1666." --James Wolcott on Dylan in 1985
GafariumYinka: High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
-James Wolcott
thegoodmarty: Nick Tosches, beloved music journalist and biographer, died at the age of 69. Tosches began writing alongside Lester Bangs and Richard Meltzer. Together, the three rock writers were dubbed “Noise boys” by journalist James Wolcott because of their adventurous writing styles.
