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Channing Pollock (1880–1946) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and critic. While still a teenager, he began his career as the Washington Post’s drama critic in 1896.
An epistolary symposium devoted to “The World’s Worst Book” appeared in the Winter 1941 issue. The following Proustian riposte, or “riproust,” came from Channing Pollock.…