Go, Read: Sorel Profiles Addams

There are basically two kinds of critical overviews when it comes to books: the kind where the writer dives into the work in an analytical sense and one where the author takes on the subject presented by the book in question and using the book as a touchstone provides a healthy dollop of his own views on the matter. This New York Observer piece on Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life is in the latter camp, but with the good fortune that the person providing his own view is cartoonist Edward Sorel. The cartoon Sorel draws of Addams is fun enough I felt I shouldn't swipe it for this entry and is worth the click-through by itself.

Also, I must not have been paying attention to the other articles on this book, because this is the first time I remember hearing Addams dated Jackie O and slept with Veronica Lake.
 
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