This collection of newspaper columns from 1953-54 by John O'Hara is a mixed bag. Some of the material has not aged well, but O'Hara's reflections on the rich, publishers, Hemingway and Steinbeck, and his work in newspapers still merit attention. His suspicion of metaphors and his reliance on characterization and observation rather than plot in his novels are traits missing in too many writers.
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