Volume 12, Number 5 · March 13, 1969
Not My Bag
By Ronald Sukenick
The Bag
by Sol Yurick
Trident Press, 476 pp., $4.95
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
by Robert Coover
Random House, 242 pp., $4.95
A novel about poverty in America, about poverty programs, about the New Left, about Welfare, about the Lower East Side—my neighborhood, or as much of a neighborhood as I've ever had—The Bag, the novel that prophesied the Columbia uprising. And the bearded guy on the back cover looks East Side. We go into the Welfare center and I can see right away he knows what he's talking about, he's been there. You can see that in the details. He knows how the people talk, the workers, the clients; in fact the details keep accumulating—and accumulating, and accumulating. What is this, Zola? Dreiser? This is evidently a book that assumes nothing, not even the obvious.
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