Not Angry…Just Tired

When James A. Wechsler of the New York Post was inspired to name his latest volume Reflections of an Angry Middle-Aged Editor (Random House, $3.95), he put a labored title on a weary book. It is surprising that Wechsler went to the trouble of assembling these pages, so tired and discouraged does he seem to be. If these Reflections contain a single fresh idea in 239 pages, it escaped my careful scrutiny.

Confronted with writing as incoherent and lifeless as this, one wishes above all to be kind. But Wechsler gives that good impulse precious little to work with. Since his book has no

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When James A. Wechsler of the New York Post was inspired to name his latest volume Reflections of an Angry Middle-Aged Editor (Random House, $3.95), he put a labored title on a weary book. It is surprising that Wechsler went to the trouble of assembling these pages, so tired and discouraged does he seem to be. If these Reflections contain a single fresh idea in 239 pages, it escaped my careful scrutiny.

Confronted with writing as incoherent and lifeless as this, one wishes above all to be kind. But Wechsler gives that good impulse precious little to work with. Since his book has no