The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.
Source: Salt into Old Scars, in Toward a Radical Middle, 1971.
-- Renata Adler, (Oct 19 1938-____), US journalist, writer; She was a staff writer-reporter for?The New Yorker, and chief?film critic?for?The New York Times.