From a Writer's Notebook Author:Van Wyck Brooks "Our greatest literary historian has assembled here a marvelously provocative series of ideas and observations culled from a lifetime of reading, observing, thinking, working and just plain living. Here is Mr. Brooks in his most creative role. His comments on such varied subjects as the radio, bull-fighting, Veblen, Nietzsche, spelling and the... more » avant-garde are at all times wise, perceptive, witty."« less