"Bradshaw was a famously charming man, and his lounge-lizard urbanity fully suffuses his prose. This new anthology is a necessary book for all men and women of letters." —Martin AmisA collection of magazine writer Jon Bradshaw’s essential writings, The Ocean is Closed rediscovers a memorable talent, and offers us a shadow reality to the established literary canon of the mid-century. With droll wit and keen intelligence, Bradshaw’s cinematic prose brings th...

“A long-overdue anthology of writings by a great—and now largely forgotten—long-form journalist . . . Exemplary journalism by a writer who deserves to be in every nonfiction anthology and textbook henceforth.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewA forgotten master of the long form, recovered: the essential magazine journalism of Jon Bradshaw, edited by Alex Belth of Esquire Classic, from full-dress profiles of W. H. Aude...