Exigent Muse

I am used to the idea that literary modernism was too elitist or obscure, or too difficult: but I ran across startling statistic yesterday i...

When I started work on my MFA in Creative Writing, Robert Stone was the model for us all. A graduate (in a remarkably talented cohort) of th...

Richard Ford's new book, Let Me Be Frank with You , is in one way the best of his Frank Bascombe series. It consists of four "novel...

The third of Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe novels, The Lay of the Land (most likely not a double entendre complimenting his enduring ma...

Tracy Daugherty's biography of Donald Barthelme, Hiding Man , tells almost everything one would want to know about Donald Barthelme. It...