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jack dickey webspace: Guess Which One Of These Guys Was Pissy About Not Winning A National Magazine Award?

Click through to read the whole thing. Then go here: http://www.theawl.com/2012/04/man-storms-off-internet-goodbye-chris-jones

jackdickey:

Is it Charles McGrath, who wrote “Robert Caro’s Big Dig,” (New York Times Magazine, 12 April 2012):

It’s not writing that takes Caro so long but, rather, rewriting. In college he was such a quick and facile writer, and so speedy a typist, that one of his teachers, the critic R. P. Blackmur,…
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    Also of note: Choire responds.
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    excellently highlighted by Jack Dickey
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    read the whole thing. Then go here: http://www.theawl.com/2012/04/man-storms-off-internet-goodbye-chris-jones
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    Hilariously, it’s Jones’ feature, not McGrath’s — McGrath’s...more satisfying, less...
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