The Agony and the Ecstasy
Featured writer: Scott Saalman I recently bought Irving Stone’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” now more than 50 years in print. A month ago, had you told me I would be reading this biographical novel of Michelangelo Buonarroti, I would have considered you pazzo—crazy! My reads tend to be contemporary in content, very few printed before my birth—and definitely not…