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Words, Words, Words: Consummate Book Reviewer John Leonard Is a Tough Act to Follow (thepoliticker.observer)
John Leonard. (Photo by Rodney Brooks)
John Leonard estimated that he read 13,000 books and published more than five
million words in his lifetime. For 50 years, before his death of lung cancer
in 2008, he was the most relentless and generous of critics. He started out,
before he dropped out of Harvard, in the pages of the _Crimson_, parodying the
Cambridge coffeehouse scene and panning _Monocle_, a humor magazine run out of
Yale by Victor Navasky, who invited him to write for _Monocle_, where he
parodied _National Review_, which got William Buckley to give him a job there,
at a time when the contents page—featuring Joan Didion, Garry Wills and Renata
Adler—read like a preview of the _New York Review of Books_. At _National
Review_ he could throw acid on Greenwich Village, which was apparently spoiled
before Bob Dylan got there, and declare the death of the Beat Generation, but
he had to move to Pacifica Radio in Berkeley to hate on Nixon with impunity
and put Pauline Kael on the air.
Leonard wrote four novels by the time he was 34, but had to follow the money,
which for him was in criticism. ...