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Describing his art, Paul Klee once said, I take a line out for a walk. This is precisely what Joseph Epstien does in his trenchant informal essays. In this fourth collection, he takes out such wildly various lines as gossip, gambling, height (or the lack of it), hats, smoking,... Read Full Overview

Paul Klee's words on his art, I take a line out for a walk, describe precisely what the author of these essays does--he takes out such lines as gossip, gambling, height (or the lack of it), hats, smoking, fame or compulsive reading and walks them in his own discursive style.