San Francisco: Mercury House, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In thirty provocative and varied essays... known and new writers address what Randall Jarrell called the 'terrible nakedness' of the critic, who becomes everything and nothing, all-important and invisible, in the act of judging works of art." Edited and with an Introduction by Wendy Lesser. Among the contributors are Diane Johnson, Louise Gluck, Robert Pinsky, Gore Vidal, Sigrid Nunez, Robert Hass, Gayle Pemberton, Amy Tan and many others. xii, 328 pp. ISBN: 1-562790374.