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American literature

Arts Remembrance: “Why Not Say What Happened” — Morris Dickstein’s Memoir About Living a Life of the Mind

RIP Morris Dickstein, among the last of the generation of the New York School of Jewish intellectuals, scholar/critics of massive knowledge and intellect who came from humble backgrounds.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Review Tagged: American literature, Columbia University, criticism, memoir, Morris Dickstein, Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education

Arts Interview: The Late E.L. Doctorow — Reduced to Art

“When people ask how I became interested in history, I answer it was through an interest in popular culture and disreputable genres.”

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: American literature, E.L.Doctorow, fiction, history

Book Review: “Selected Letters of Norman Mailer” — Many More Pieces of His Mind

It’s refreshing and more than a little nostalgic to experience the trials, triumphs, and tribulations of Mailer’s time through his own combative eyes..

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Review Tagged: American literature, Matt Hanson, Norman-Mailer, Selected Letters of Norman Mailer

Book Feature: Authors Bernhard Schlink and Joyce Hackett on the Craft of Writing and Writing About the Past

Sponsored by the Harvard Writing Program and the Harvard Summer School, the event was introduced, perhaps humorously, to the audience as a “meeting of German–American relations.” In reality, it was a more of a showcase in differences about each country’s historical imagination.

By: Christopher M. Ohge Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: American literature, Bernhard Schlink, German literature, Joyce Hackett, The Reader

Book Review: The Pale King– David Foster Wallace Finds the Magnificent in the Mundane

If you haven’t before had the keen pleasure of reading David Foster Wallace, THE PALE KING is a fine gateway drug. Its 550 pages are broken into 50 sections, each digestible on its own without reference to the larger work The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Little, Brown, 560 pages, $29.99 By Michael de […]

By: Michael de Zayas Filed Under: Books Tagged: American literature, contemporary, David-Foster-Wallace, fiction, The Pale King

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