Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Christopher Lehmann-Hauptis an American journalist, critic and novelist. He began as an editor for various New York City publishing houses, among them Holt, Rinehart and Winston and The Dial Press. In 1965, he moved to The New York Times Book Review, where he became an editor. In 1969, he was appointed senior Daily Book Reviewer for The New York Times, a position he held until 1995, when he became a regular daily book reviewer. From 1965 until 2000, he wrote...
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ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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challenges brilliant clarity
A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.
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We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
junk my-favorite rice-krispies
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
sick alive language
Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.
sports dream sleep
The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.
book spirit proust
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.
morning crazy snakes
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.
laughing make-me-laugh loud
Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.
book differences enormous
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.
israel energy results
One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.
mind disagree
Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.
men feet brain
There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.
writing desire plot
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.