Bye Bye Birdland
The first volume of Stanley Crouch’s decades-in-the-making biography gets to the heart of Bird’s genius, but it will test your patience, says Stuart Klawans.
Stuart Klawans has been the film critic for The Nation since 1988. He is the author of the books Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order (a finalist for the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Awards) and Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001. His film criticism and reviews won a 2007 National Magazine Award.
The first volume of Stanley Crouch’s decades-in-the-making biography gets to the heart of Bird’s genius, but it will test your patience, says Stuart Klawans.