Endpapers is an invaluable gift to literature, mainly but not only for the quotations, details, and beguilingly written scenes of publisher Kurt Wolff’s life scattered throughout
Franz Kafka
Book Interview: A New Take on Kafka — A Conversation with Peter Wortsman
The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.
Fuse Theater Review: The Indiscreet Indifference of the Bourgeoisie
Both authors generate humor out of the casual inhumanity of the bourgeoise, dramatizing how the farce of middle class success distorts its victors and victims.