This volume collects 65 examples of music critic Tim Page's music and cultural criticisms, some of which earned him the Pulitzer Price for Criticism in 1997. It includes both short and long articles about artists such as Glenn Gould, Vladimir Horowitz, and Frank Sinatra as well as more contemporary

Dawn Powell had a brilliant mind and a keen wit and her humor was never at a finer pitch than in her diaries. And yet her story is a poignant one - a son emotionally and mentally impaired, a household of too much alcohol and never enough money, and an artistic career that, if not a failure, fell far short of the success she craved. All is recorded here - along with working sketches for her novels, and often revealing portraits of her many friends (a literary who's who of her period) - in her always unique style and without self-delusion.

Powell's remarkable Diaries will stand as...