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Harold brodkey innocence8/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A car simply is too weak and too complex to be a good symbol, since neither does it plow, and it does not weep either.' Moreoever, 'Brodkey's philosophizing alternates between deconstruction-rivaling nonsense and delusional pieties.' Kirkus Reviews complained that in these 'self-involved, prolix' essays, 'Brodkey seems to be parodying both himself and The New Yorker.' Among the offending examples cited were 'a superannuated New Journalism style piece on the Academy Awards', 'pompously irrelevant analyses of the 1992 presidential campaign' and 'preciously insubstantial vignettes' for The New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town' section. ![]() In reviewing Brodkey's essay collection Sea Battles on Dry Land for The New York Times, Wendy Steiner wrote that although the anthology 'does contain some very good sentences,' others were 'unspeakable,' e.g. ![]()
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