A comprehensive selection of Dennis Potter's non-fiction writing, spanning his television criticism, political columns, lectures and radio talks.
A comprehensive selection of Dennis Potter's non-fiction writing, spanning his TV criticism, political columns, lectures and radio talks. Enjoyable, rigorous and insightful, this collection coincides with a major revival of Potter's work at the BFI in June 2015.
As the British Film Institute celebrates the life and work of 'the writer who redefined TV drama', Oberon Books, with perfect timing, offers this collection of Potter's critical abuse in journalism and interviews at its most constructively eloquent. The Art of Invective essentially complements Humphrey Carpenter's magisterial biography and all those DVDs of the plays that can still galvanise what Potter called 'the palace of varieties in the corner of the room'. He believed that television, with its vast, all-inclusive audience, was a potentially powerful means of promulgating true democracy... stingingly vitriolic invective... merciless pungency.
