Anna’s Reviews > Excelsior, You Fathead!: The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd > Status Update

Struggling with ambivalence on this -- I'm learning a lot, but I can't wait for this to be over. Bergmann desperately needed someone to tell him to stop repeating so much of the first half of the book....

"One of the things that bothers me me about our time is that ... I imagine right now there must be at least 35,000 writers who earn a living on one principle -- proving to all the other Americans that America has the worst way of life in the world. The dishonesty, the hypocrisy, blah, blah, blah -- whatever it is...I think it must be based on an unbelievable lack of knowledge of the rest of the world." -- JS, 1963