James Wolcott

Cultural critic for Vanity Fair

Cultural critic for Vanity Fair; has written for The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The London Review of Books; lives in NYC.

James Wolcott appears in the following:

James Wolcott on the 1970s in New York

Monday, October 31, 2011

James Wolcott describes moving to New York, with the dream of being a writer, in fall 1972—when the city was sinking into squalor at the same time the cultural and creative energy was building. His memoir Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York is a portrait of a critic as a young man, and is also a portrait of a legendary time in New York history.

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African Americans on the Networks; Boston Globe; Eyes Wide Shut; Rainbow Ruthie-The Sequel; Vanity Fair v Brill's Content; Sports Bra Seen Around the World

Friday, July 16, 1999

The Sports Bra Seen Around the World; 'Eyes Wide Shut': Kubrick's Final Film; Searching for African American Characters on Network TV

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