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Gilbert Vivian Seldes (/ ˈ s ɛ l d ə s /; January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine The Dial and hosted the NBC television program The Subject is Jazz (1958).
Jun 20, 2021 · Gilbert Vivian Seldes was himself a remarkable figure. He was an eclectic gadfly among the century’s most influential intellectuals: a television programmer, a college dean, a tireless drama and cultural critic and, of course, Krazy’s best literary friend.
Mar 21, 1996 · Yet today many students of American culture would not recognize his name. He was Gilbert Seldes, and in this brilliant biographical study, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen recreates a singularly American life of letters.
- Michael Kammen
A constructive critic who believes in getting the most out of American entertainment, GILBERT SELDES is the author of that well-remembered book, The Seven Lively Arts. In the 1930s he wrote for...
Sep 13, 2021 · The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Seven Lively Arts, by Gilbert Seldes This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Gilbert Seldes has 39 books on Goodreads with 1786 ratings. Gilbert Seldes’s most popular book is The Stammering Century (New York Review Books Classics).
Gilbert Vivian Seldes ( / ˈsɛldiːz /; January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine The Dial and hosted the NBC television program The Subject is Jazz (1958).
