"Overall, NB might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite, but during the first 20 years of the present century, James Campbell made it into something more--a uniquely personal miscellany of wit, weirdness, and waspish provocation."
--Michael Dirda, Washington Post
"Campbell wrote about writers who pretend not to read their reviews, and biographers who hate their subjects. He wrote about pop...