The Pauline Kael Reader

The Pauline Kael Reader. 516 Essays, Reviews, and Interviews.The Pauline Kael Reader is a generous sampling of articles by and about Kael. It includes some obscure, uncollected essays, along with such famous pieces as "Raising Kane", "Trash, Art, and the Movies", "Bonnie and Clyde", "The Making of The Group" (my personal favorite), the controversial Shoah pan, and her outrageous Last Tango in Paris rave. For fun, I've added Norman Mailer's equally outrageous Tango piece, in which he takes a few swipes at Kael. An amusing minor subplot of her career was her long "relationship" with Mailer, whom she admired but invariably panned, comparing him at various stages to Marlon Brando, John Huston, Bob Dylan, Jean Cocteau, Henry Miller, Ken Kesey, and Sam Peckinpah.I've also included other attacks, tributes, and interviews from the likes of Renata Adler, Andrew Sarris, Phillip Lopate, John Houseman, Roy Blount, Craig Seligman, Paul Schrader, Michael Moore, Jean-Luc Godard, Roger Ebert, and Davids Denby and Thomson. With their help, and with a long immersion in her unbuttoned, amoral prose, you will be equipped to grapple with Pauline Kael in all her force and complexity.