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Most of all, then, The Great American Novel is a narrative home run, perhaps over a close left field wall, with no one on base, but a home run nevertheless. Roth takes a myth that everyone knows is destroyed anyway, and picking apart the baseball ethos lovingly, savoring its madness...
Part of my affection for Macdonald derives from shared interests: We are both fascinated by little children, beautiful women, unsolved murders, rich neurotics, and that strange socio-geographic area which goes under the generic rubric of Southern California. How could I help but love Sleeping Beauty, when Macdonald has sprinkled...
With such unorthodox symbols and signposts, Vonnegut himself has been surveying America for nearly a quarter of a century. In the course of that time, he has created a closed system all his own. Indeed, it is Vonnegut's strange and captivating system, not his conventionally liberal ideas or...
These letters, spanning the years 1912 to 1936, punctuate a relationship evidently more than satisfying to its protagonists, but disturbing in the extreme to the non-partisan reader, and I would hope, to the partisan as well. Freud's egoism, his supreme indifference to anyone's work or to contributions...
The vocabulary used by doctors to describe Mongoloids is frightening. Just the word Mongoloid itself conjurs up a race--labelling this child as someone not just handicapped, but practically outside of our own familiar species. In the best pregnancy counselling offered, the parents are told that the child will need...