September 22, 2011
“Alfred Kazin was eaten alive by his own demons. Some who are being eaten alive withdraw into brooding silence; some cry aloud to the heavens. Kazin was distinctly of the second type.” — Vivian Gornick on Alfred Kazin’s journals and his hungry soul
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