This collection, with a new introduction, by Pushcart editor Bill Henderson includes gems like The final blow-up of what was once a remarkable, if minor. talent. The New Yorker, 1936, on William Faulkner s Absalom, Absalom ) Diffuse brackish pretentious. (Virginia Wolfe, 1922, on James Joyce sUlysses) Whitman is as unacquainted with art as a hog is with mathematics. The London Critic, 1855, on Walt Whitman s Leaves of Grass) It gasps for want of craft and sensibility. New York Times Book Review, 1961, on Joseph Heller s Catch-22) "