http://calitreview.com/563 Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:46:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://calitreview.com/563/comment-page-1#comment-14880 susan rosenberg Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:00:37 +0000 http://calitreview.com/topics/religion/563/#comment-14880 what can I say? I read Kessler's review, found it interesting, thought-provoking, and worth the read. I found Steve Carey's comment rather peevish, not attacking the thoughts expressed but the man who expressed them so brilliantly. what can I say? I read Kessler’s review, found it interesting, thought-provoking, and worth the read. I found Steve Carey’s comment rather peevish, not attacking the thoughts expressed but the man who expressed them so brilliantly.

]]> http://calitreview.com/563/comment-page-1#comment-14864 Steve Carey Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:53:08 +0000 http://calitreview.com/topics/religion/563/#comment-14864 Jascha can't write. He can perform, and do a look-at-me routine that the late Anthony Burgess - another Joyce worshipper - would envy. But he's swallowed without digesting. (Not that being a Joyce man and an academic necessarily leads to this result: the equally late Richard Ellmann wrote beautifully, and lucidly.) Let Jascha get back to impressing undergraduates and get in someone who's less thrilled with his own namedropping. Jascha can’t write. He can perform, and do a look-at-me routine that the late Anthony Burgess – another Joyce worshipper – would envy. But he’s swallowed without digesting. (Not that being a Joyce man and an academic necessarily leads to this result: the equally late Richard Ellmann wrote beautifully, and lucidly.) Let Jascha get back to impressing undergraduates and get in someone who’s less thrilled with his own namedropping.

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