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...GRACE by Bernard Malamud Farrar, Straus & Giroux 223 pages...
...praise. In fact, these distinguished titles all appear on some current list or other of banned books: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Bernard Malamud's The Fixer, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Ralph Ellison's Invisible. Man, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, P.L Travers' Mary Poppins and The American Heritage Dictionary. Last week a collection of literary luminaries from PEN, the writers' association, dramatized their...
...urgency that there isn't now," he says. But since that tumultuous period, which he said had "the highest concentration of really fine writing," student work has become more varied. Part of the reason, he says, is a lack of commanding writers. He cites Saul Bellow, Walker Percy, Bernard Malamud, and the poets John Berryman and Robert Lowell as influential, but he says no single writer or school is dominant. "All the students I see have read quite a bit," he says, "but there are curiously few intersections among their reading." Besides a drift away from confessional stories...
...little harsh, but that is the outcry of the passionate and deprived. The strike rudely interrupted a cherished American routine. Bernard Malamud once said, "The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology." The strike especially offends Americans because it has subverted that sense of the mythic; the strike has kicked the mystique of baseball in the pants and coarsely brought into unavoidable view things Americans try to ignore about corporate baseball: its pinky-ring crassness, its carnivorous commercialism, its obsession with the megabucks to be wrung from the lovely game...
This is true for this collection's best stories. They are by masters of the form, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, John Updike and Saul Bellow, all of whom will undoubtedly be represented when the O. Henry Awards publishes The Prize Stories of the Century...