Books in Brief: The Come As You Are Masquerade Party

The Come As You Are Masquerade Party, by Samuel Rosenberg, Introduction by Buckminster Fuller (Prentice-Hall, $6.95). Sam Rosenberg is in the great, and perhaps dying, tradition of eccentric essayists. Painter, photographer, philosopher, massive collector of trivia, “and probably history’s most massive reader.” Here he turns his attention (and wit) to such disparate subjects as Santa Claus, Lot’s Wife, Albert Schweitzer, Frankenstein’s Monster and Melville’s Tomb in Woodlawn Cemetery. The last two essays are masterpieces of literary detective work and insight, but all are good reading.

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The Come As You Are Masquerade Party, by Samuel Rosenberg, Introduction by Buckminster Fuller (Prentice-Hall, $6.95). Sam Rosenberg is in the great, and perhaps dying, tradition of eccentric essayists. Painter, photographer, philosopher, massive collector of trivia, “and probably history’s most massive reader.” Here he turns his attention (and wit) to such disparate subjects as Santa Claus, Lot’s Wife, Albert Schweitzer, Frankenstein’s Monster and Melville’s Tomb in Woodlawn Cemetery. The last two essays are masterpieces of literary detective work and insight, but all are good reading.