Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia and the literary executor of the estate of W.H. Auden.
He is the author of Early Auden, Later Auden, and many essays on (and editions of) nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Pynchon.
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The Demonic Trilling
June 7, 2012
Why Trilling Matters
by Adam Kirsch
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Dwight, the Passionate Moralist
March 8, 2012
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain
by Dwight Macdonald, edited by John Summers, with an introduction by Louis Menand
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The Hidden Life of Alfred Kazin
August 18, 2011
Alfred Kazin’s Journals
selected and edited by Richard M. Cook
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In Defense of Yetta
July 14, 2011
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The Obedient Bellow
April 28, 2011
Saul Bellow: Letters
edited by Benjamin Taylor
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Two ‘Augie March’ Mysteries
April 28, 2011
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The Perils of His Magic Circle
April 29, 2010
Later Novels and Stories: The Château; So Long, See You Tomorrow; Stories and Improvisations 1957–1999
by William Maxwell
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Google & Books: An Exchange
March 26, 2009
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‘What We Love, Not Are’
September 25, 2008
Selected Poems
by Frank O’Hara, edited by Mark Ford
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New York Everyman
June 12, 2008
Alfred Kazin: A Biography
by Richard M. Cook
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Auden and God
December 6, 2007
Auden and Christianity
by Arthur Kirsch
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Auden’s Wit
October 7, 2004
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Light and Outrageous
August 12, 2004
W. H. Auden’s Book of Light Verse
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Spender & Auden
March 8, 1979
by William Maxwell-
The Human Face of Type
August 4, 2011
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Edward Mendelson on Frank O'Hara
September 15, 2008
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Edward Mendelson on Frank O'Hara
September 15, 2008