Jack Green
Pseudonymous American writer and critic best known for Fire the Bastards!, a vigorous defense of William Gaddis's The Recognitions and a scathing critique of mid-century book reviewing, originally serialized in his self-published zine newspaper in the early 1960s.
Books
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1. Fire The Bastards!
A blistering, sardonic audit of midcentury book reviewing, this polemic compiles columns that expose critics’ factual errors, misreadings, logrolling, and herd mentality in their responses to a demanding postwar novel. Through close comparisons, statistics, and satire, it reveals systemic sloppiness in the literary press and calls for higher standards, accountability, and reader skepticism toward critical authority.
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