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Author Reconsideration: The A, B, and C of Sue Grafton

The conveniently tidy endings do turn killing into an entertainment. They also allow us to briefly believe in redemption. And that is not the vainest of hopes.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Daniel Gewertz, Edmund-Wilson, Kinsey Millhone, Mystery novels, Sue Grafton

Book Review: “The Feud” — Brilliant Literary Frenemies

Alex Beam generates interest via his portrait of frenemies Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov as brainy but flawed human beings.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Alex Beam, Edmund-Wilson, Matt Hanson, The Feud, vladimir-nabokov

Book Review: Edmund Wilson — Prophet of the Blogosphere, Part 2

Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature (Paperback) By Lewis M. Dabney. Johns Hopkins University Press, 672 pages, $25. Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s (Library of America #176) By Edmund Wilson. Edited by Lewis M. Dabney. 1026 pages, $40. Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s (Library of America #177) […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: arts, book-critics, book-reviewers, Books, criticism, Edmund-Wilson, Lewis-dabney, Library-of-America, Persona Non Grata

Book Review: Edmund Wilson — A Paleface of a Redskin, Part 1

Back in the ’30s, Philip Rahv memorably divided American fiction writers into redskins and palefaces — Mark Twain epitomized the wild men, Henry James the civilized — a chasm that today may be outmoded or politically indelicate. But Lewis M. Dabney’s fine biography of Edmund Wilson suggests that when it comes to assessing literary critics […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: axels-castle, Books, Edmund-Wilson, lewis-M.-dabney, Library-of-America-Philip-Rahv, Mary-McCarthy, Patriotic-Gore, Persona Non Grata, Reviews, to-the-finland-station

Books Commentary: Trashy Modern Classics

More evidence bean counters will be picking the classics of the future: two novels by Ayn Rand – the unhinged saint of unbridled capitalism – have been reissued as Penguin Modern Classics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Fuse News Tagged: Ayn-Rand, Books, Charles-Brockden-Brown, Edmund-Wilson, HPLovecraft, Library-of-America, Penguin-Modern-Classics, Persona Non Grata

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