Vidal: In Defense of Mencken

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Sun Sep 1 13:21:01 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox writes:


> After a while I get very bored with endless well-done humor built
> around an utterly detestable core. Good writers are a dime-a-dozen.

If such skill is so common, then who are the contemporary writers with well-done humor built around a commendable core? Where's the prole's cotton candy?

Admittedly, I am quite found of Tom Tomorrow. Good core there. Still, there's something about the sheer bombast of Mencken, a verve not so apparent in Tomorrow's work.

-- Shane

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