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From: Artforum
Date: 20020701
Author:Klavan, Andrew

Heavy Weather, by P.G. Wodehouse. New York: Overlook Press. 321 pages. $16.95. Laughing Gas, by P.G. Wodehouse. New York: Overlook Press. 286 pages. $16.95. The Mating Season, by P.G. Wodehouse. New York: Overlook Press. 272 pages. $16.95.

Andrew Klavan

The icy hand of intellectualism strangles those art forms that lose the protection of the public's love. Painting and poetry were throttled in their beds and replaced at dead of night with the naked emperors who now strut through academia in their name. So, more recently, has "literary" fiction come to look suspiciously less like its ...

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