Wednesday, March 10 2010
The Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler. Ed. Samuele F.S. Pardini
Whatever the subject at hand, nearly every page of this collection evinces Fiedler’s intelligence, erudition, panache, and combativeness.
Thursday, January 14 2010
The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature edited by J.C. Hallman
J.C. Hallman writes about what he calls a “kind of personal literary analysis, criticism that contemplates rather than analyzes” that inspired him to compile these works by writers from Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence to Susan Sontag and Milan Kundera.
Thursday, May 31 2007
Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poets Life by Scott Donaldson
Donaldson sets out to rescue Robinson from his detractors and his admirers alike.
Wednesday, May 16 2007
Shakespeare the Thinker by A.D. Nuttall
To be or not to be a philosopher did not concern Shakespeare, so far as we know. And we know very little.
Wednesday, April 4 2007
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
While many of us are proud of reading regularly, voraciously, or eclectically, how many of us really pay close attention to what we read?
