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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (18069)	7/12/2001 1:59:31 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 82486

He's not a reporter or a political writer, so he doesn't need facts. <g> I like him for the enemies he's made. He's been described as a "dyspeptic misanthropic crank." How can you not like the guy? His first novel is due out this month, I think I'll pick it up. Here's an interview NY Press did with him. James Wolcott, 48, has been one of the sharpest, and sharpest-tongued, cultural commentators in American media since his start with the Village Voice in the early 1970s (he was squeezed out by the Voice’s editorial politburo in 1982). He’s currently into his second stint at Vanity Fair; he’s also written for The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Harper’s, The New Republic and elsewhere, commenting on tv, music, movies and literature. His first novel, The Catsitters, is due out in July. Novelist Jay McInerney, with whom he’s had a long-running feud, once described Wolcott as "dyspeptic" and "misanthropic" and filled with "seething, furious resentment." Last year in the L.A. Weekly, Manohla Dargis referred to him as a "culture coroner." He certainly pulls no punches in the following interview. He met with us last week at the New York Press offices. nypress.com

To: Bill who wrote (18069)	7/12/2001 2:25:55 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Here's a sample of Wolcott's writing style. From the Foxnews article. "One of the absurdities of Hume's Special Report is that it is so claustrophobically right-wing that anyone who appears on the panel contracts a slow-moving case of Stockholm syndrome. For diversity of opinion and complexion, the all-stars call upon the presence of Juan Williams, host of daily call-in show Talk of the Nation on National Public Radio. To Yosemite Sam conservatives, always hopping mad about something, the soothing voices of NPR - where the women sound like they're making a clay pot on the turntable and the men sound as if they want to help - are the pigeon coos of modestly upscale liberalism, progressivism as a tone poem. When the camera is on Williams, however, he starts to wobble, unsure of himself, trapped in enemy territory and grappling with a shallow identity crisis - wait I'm an NPR guy...." He couldn't be more wrong, (except for the description of the voices at NPR) but who cares? The guy cracks me up!