Has James Wolcott Ever Met a Conservative?

â??Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York,â? the new memoir by James Wolcott, is the best book Iâ??ve read this year â?? perhaps the best book Iâ??ve read in several years. Wolcott, a columnist for Vanity Fair, is a liberal who has a serious and hypocritical blind spot about politics and journalism. But before getting to that, I want to praise this penetrating, poetic and quite fantastic book. It will probably wind up on many college reading lists, and deserves to.