In his introduction, Joseph Epstein offers a broad definition of literary genius: “Timelessness, grandeur of vision, originality of outlook—all these in concert and worked at a high power comprise ...
At the heart of “Genius,” a fact-based drama set in the late-1920s/early-1930s New York publishing world, is this truth: Editing is, alas, not cinematic. In the film, Colin Firth plays the great ...
Michael Grandage’s “Genius” dramatizes a few chapters from the life and career of Maxwell Perkins, the editor who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, among others, and ...
Michael Grandage’s “Genius” dramatizes a few chapters from the life and career of Maxwell Perkins — the editor who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe and helped shape ...
Essayist and former editor of The American Scholar Epstein (In a Cardboard Box: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage) assembles a stellar cast of 25 contemporary authors to explore how and when ...
Michael Grandage’s “Genius” dramatizes a few chapters from the life and career of Maxwell Perkins, the editor who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, among others, and ...