"Through more than thirty years of writing and behavior, Simon has shown us how easy it is to be a snake." So ends an attack on me of a good many years ago on Salon by Charles Taylor, showing how easy it is to misjudge me from a widely held but unexaminedly researched, lazily hostile point of view.People who have unprejudicedly read my criticism in magazines, or collected in book form, must know how mistaken dear Mr.…
SOURCE: John Simon at 12:48AM on January 24, 2019