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Review Lucking Out is one of Slate 's Best Books of 2011! Praise for Lucking Out : " Compared with James Wolcott, most literary journalists write like Amish farmers, their sentences plain as bib overalls.... [S]urrender to rush of this swooping carnival ride of a book [and] you'll have a wonderful time with Lucking Out . Memoirs don't come more entertaining than this.... Really, Wolcott seems incapable of writing a tired sentence ."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post " Very sharp and very funny ."—David Kelly, New York Times " The subject matter was enough to suck me into these pages : The Village Voice in the 1970s, Patti Smith and the punk scene, porno theaters in Times Square, Pauline Kael and her acolytes—New York City journalism at its gossipy best. But Wolcott’s sometimes almost crazy style is what kept me reading ."—David Haglund, Slate " Wolcott's memories of CBGB, while free of nostalgia...are suffused with elegiac ardency .... As critic-stylists go, Wolcott is up there with John Leonard and Wilfrid Sheed .... [But] what ultimately makes this book so vital is its documentation of one writer's beginnings . Beneath the scrapbook of memories lies a sneaky defense

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Author

James Wolcott

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385534994

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

3.43 / 5 (336 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13