APS TOGETHER
Day 13
New Grub Street by George GissingChapter 13
November 18, 2023 by Yiyun Li
In every generation there must be an abundance of Alfred Yules. At least he is not the worst kind of critic, not afflicted with “flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.”
“To assail an author without increasing the number of his readers is the perfection of journalistic skill.”
I laughed out reading this line, only because it’s too true, too chilling.
Marian slaving for Alfred Yule’s scholarly work: this is worse than what many of the Dickens characters have to endure.
