Michael Dirda

SB 's biography was very well received. Yet although most commentators praised its solid research and immense marshalling of information, some saw it as somehow too personal, too close-up in focus. The Times review of...

Michael Dirda , reviewing this book for the Guardian singled out for comment SB 's quicksilver prose, her compassionate, autumnal view of the world, and her fundamentally dry, unblinkered, unillusioned intelligence.

When Barbara Grier found the book in a Kansas department store in 1952, she was thrilled: It was a very upbeat, pro-lesbian book, which in itself was a miracle.Michael Dirda said it...

This established PH 's trademark theme, Michael Dirda has written, a blurring of fantasy and reality, usually reinforced by some sort of folie à deux.

A Kirkus Reviews critic termed the collection self-important. Reviewer Michael Dirda , in the Washington Post Book World, noted that JW has been critiqued for being lesbian, shamelessly self-promoting, and more than a...