Online listening tip.

1963. Roger Rosenblatt moderates a discussion to be broadcast over San Francisco's KPFA. Tom Sutpen, who's got the recording for you at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger..., introduces the round: "[F]ormer Partisan Review editor and recidivist Trotskyite, Dwight MacDonald; Pauline Kael, then a freelance art-house veteran and latter-day flapper; and John Simon, someone whom a friend of mine once referred to rather unkindly as the Slobodan Miloševic of arts criticism."

A distracting question to try to keep out of mind while you're listening: If you were to go out with just one of them for a drink or two afterwards, who'd it be?

Posted by dwhudson at May 15, 2006 1:40 AM