When you’re a critic everyone loves to criticize you. One critic looks over the criticism that came his way this year. “The eminent critic and playwright Robert Brustein took me to task for reporting that his fashionably coiffed crony David Mamet was in a ‘slump’ because he had written an awful novel that couldn’t find a US publisher. (Good thing I didn’t know about the ‘poetry’ and the vanity CD.)” – Boston Globe 12/21/00