From the Book - First edition.
Introduction / Jay Parini
Part 1: Reading The Writers
Novelists and critics of the 1940s (1953)
Top ten best-sellers according to the Sunday New York Times as of January 7, 1973 (1973)
French letters: theories of the new novel (1967)
American plastic: the matter of fiction (1974)
Some memories of the glorious bird and an earlier self (1976)
Edmund Wilson: this critic and this gin and these shoes (1980)
William Dean Howells (1983)
Dawn Powell: the American writer (1987)
Rabbit's own burrow (1996)
Part 2: Reading The World
Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)
Pink triangle and yellow star (1981)
Theodore Roosevelt: an American sissy (1981)
Second American Revolution (1981)
National security state (1988)
Monotheism and its discontents (1992)
State of the union (2004).
From the Book - First Vintage International edition.
pt. 1. Reading the writers. Novelist and critics of the 1940s (1953) --
Tarzan revisitied (1963) --
The top ten best-sellers according to the New York Times as of January 7, 1973 (1973) --
French novels : theories of the new novel (1967) --
American plastic : the matter of fiction (1974) --
Calvino's novels (1974) --
The hacks of Academe (1976) --
Some memories of the Glorious Bird and an earlier self (1980) --
Edmund Wilson : this critic and this gin and these shoes (1980) --
William Dean Howells (1983) --
Dawn Powell : the American writer (1987) --
Rabbit's own burrow (1996). pt. 2. Reading the world. Passage to Egypt (1963) --
The Holy Family (1967) --
Homage to Daniel Shays (1972) --
Pink triangle and yellow star (1981) --
Theodore Roosevelt : an American sissy (1981) --
The second American Revolution (1981) --
The National Security State (1988) --
Monotheism and its discontents (1992) --
State of the Union, 2004.