Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers Letters We see growing pressure to

We see growing pressure to fight wars in Southeast Asia to stop communism

as well as with accuracy

Hybrid Lilies

their hunger for renewal

Following the trail of an unexpected family connection

Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers Letters We see growing pressure toA National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfictionas is the title essay of this collection, with its forty one "false starts," or serial attempts to capture the essence of the painter David Salle,