Having recently learned about Harry Mount and Notting Hill Editions (the Home of the Essay,) I explored their Web site to find that they publish a book about the great chronicler Joseph Roth ("Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth," by Dennis Marks) which is in itself a chronicle. Though, of course, Notting Hill doesn't call it that. What does the publisher call it? Presumably, since Notting Hill is the home of the essay, it considers the book an essay, but the promotional blurb avoids the label -- perhaps because Harry Mount has stated that an essay has to be shortish, not book-length. So the blurb reads: "In this revealing ‘psycho-geography’[inverted commas not mine], Dennis Marks makes a journey through the eastern borderlands of Europe to uncover the truth about Roth’s lost world. The result is a riveting and involving documentary that reunites Roth with his creative and spiritual landscape."
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