An eclectic collection of essays on subjects including Dracula, dirty words and Elena Ferrante is a tribute to its writer, who died last month at age 78.
“I do think I know a hot dog from a real artist,” Joan Acocella observed modestly last year. Few would disagree. Watching her tell them apart, with an occasional blast of her savage wit, was a treat for readers for four decades. Sadly, the publication of her new collection, “The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays,” comes just weeks after her death Jan. 7 at age 78.
“He wrote thirteen more novels. All of them were overpraised.” If this seems harsh, she goes on: “Not all of Leonard’s books are on , but five or six of them are, plus parts of many others. That’s a lot.” It’s the last line of the piece and characteristic of her concise, unsentimental generosity. She was good at endings.
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