{"product_id":"my-life-as-author-and-editor-9780679741022","title":"My Life as Author and Editor","description":"H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: \u003ci\u003eMy Life as Author and Editor\u003c\/i\u003e is so telling and uproariously opinionated that it might have provoked a storm of libel suits. As he recounts his career as a critic, essayist, and editor of the ground-breaking magazine \u003ci\u003eSmart Set\u003c\/i\u003e, Mencken brings us face to face with the literary aristocracy of his day, from the dour womanizer Theodore Dreiser to F. Scott Fitzgerald, drowning his gifts in alcohol. Here, too, are the hacks, poseurs, and bohemian crackpots who flocked around them. Most of all, here is Mencken himself, defying censors and Prohibition agents with equal aplomb in an age when literature was a contact sport.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679741022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 449\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 5.60w x 1.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/16\/2003 pg. 8\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"H. L. Mencken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639895126172,"sku":"9780679741022","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_850296a4-fce9-4d7d-8ddb-fde3dce643ed.jpg?v=1607545944","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-life-as-author-and-editor-9780679741022","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}