During the interwar decades, a vibrant period in the history of American literature, Hazlitt served as literary editor of The New York Sun (1925-1929), and as literary editor of the Left-leaning journal, The Nation (1930-1933).
In 1933, Hazlitt published The Anatomy of Criticism, an extended "trialogue" examining the nature of literary criticism and appreciation, regarded by some to be an early refutation of literary deconstruction [REF].