Praise, vilification, & sexual innuendo, or, How to be a critic : [electronic resource] the selected writings of John L. Wasserman (1964-1979) / [edited] by Abby Wasserman ; with a special tribute by Michael McClure.

Collection of columns originally published in the San Francisco chronicle.

Includes index.

1. How to Be a Critic -- 2. The Botulism on the Tuna of Life -- 3. Topless -- 4. Green Door to the Ultra Room -- 5. Movies That Suck -- 6. The Screening Room -- 7. The Plot Thickens -- 8. The San Francisco Sound -- 9. The Search for the Music of the Seventies -- 10. Blues to Bossa Nova -- 11. A Measure of Laughter -- 12. Show Business Is My Life -- 13. Wassy Goes 'Round the Bend -- "Inside This Hill" / Michael McClure.