Liz Smith, America's Foremost Theater and Book Critic
"Spamalot will cause you to throw your cares back over your shoulder like a toss of good luck salt!"
- 'Spamalot' Sings, Surprises, Liz Smith, Jan. 11, 2005 [NYP]
"Literary critics seem always eager to attack [Tom Wolfe's] exaggerated visions of life as it is. He has, in the past, held up to examination everything from modern art to the New Yorker under William Shawn... Wolfe remains in a class by himself as a super storyteller, a plot tangler and an observer extraordinary."
- Informed Look At College Life, Liz Smith, Jan. 10, 2005 [NYP]
" [The Plot Against America, Philip] Roth's reconfigured 'history' of a United States that elects Charles Lindberg president instead of Franklin D. Roosevelt is a kind of 'It Can Happen Here' sci-fi view of this country on the road to fascism."
- ibid.
Plus, the robots and spaceships in The Plot Against America were awesome!
[Richard Avedon portrait, via LIFE]