| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
411 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Literary life today -- Reviewing and being reviewed -- Literary biography -- Is American literature an equal-opportunity employer? -- It's only culture -- Robert Stone : American nightmares -- Why John Irving is so popular -- Bernard Malamud goes ape -- John Updike : promises, promises -- Ann Beattie and the Hippoisie -- How good is Gabriel Garcia Marquenz? -- Mailer hits bottom -- What does Philip Roth want? -- Miss Ozick regrets -- Sunshine girls : Renata Adler and Joan Didion -- Ordeal of Van Wyck Brooks -- Living for literature : Edmund Wilson -- Gray eminence with a blue pencil : Max Perkins -- Minnesota Fats of American prose : A.J. Liebling -- Willa Cather : listing toward Lesbos -- Riddle of John Dos Passos -- James Gould Cozzens repossessed -- Why Madame Bovary couldn't make love in the concrete -- Sex and euphemism -- Noblest distraction -- Piece work : writing the essay. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Epstein, Joseph, 1937- -- Books and reading.
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Epstein, Joseph, 1937- |
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Books and reading. |
| ISBN |
0393019187 |
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9780393019186 |
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