Volume 44, Number 15 · October 9, 1997
A Single Jew
By Alfred Kazin
Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work
edited by Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco
Columbia University Press, 220 pp., $15.50 (paper)
The Complete Stories
by Bernard Malamud, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 629 pp., $35.00
Bernard Malamud's The Magic Barrel was awarded the National Book Award for 1958 against the outraged opposition of one judge. Malamud, amazed that he had won, exclaimed, 'A miracle has passed.' He was delayed by a reporter in getting to the dinner in his honor. The waiter, looking him up and down, briskly informed him that the table was full and that there was no place for him. Not for the first time I was seeing a Malamud story unfold.
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