
1994
First Published
3.52
Average Rating
252
Number of Pages
A hymn to unmitigated public humiliation. With Martin Amis on a writer who can’t write; Julian Barnes on a champion who can’t win; Neil Steinberg on the stress of the National Spelling Bee; Beverly Lowry on two boys who killed their daddy; Jean Hatzfwld with dispatches from the Yugoslav war (photos by Gilles Peress); Jayne Anne Phillips and Bret Easton Ellis, and more.
Avg Rating
3.52
Number of Ratings
21
5 STARS
5%
4 STARS
52%
3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
10%
1 STARS
0%
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Author

Bill Buford
Author · 34 books
Bill Buford is an American author and journalist. Buford is the author of the books: Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany.