Robert M. Adams (1915-1996) was a founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Cornell and U.C.L.A. His scholarly interested ranged from Milton to Joyce, and his translations of many classic works of French literature continue to be read to this day.
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A Self-Made Man
October 5, 1995
Writing Was Everything by Alfred Kazin
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Wonderful Town?
April 20, 1995
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas
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Bloom’s All-Time Greatest Hits
November 17, 1994
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom
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Lighting Up Shakespeare
September 22, 1994
Essays, Mainly Shakespearean
by Anne Barton
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The Great Perhaps
March 24, 1994
Life Work by Donald Hall
The Museum of Clear Ideas by Donald Hall
How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
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Boys Will Be Boys
January 13, 1994
The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor
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Death in Montana
January 28, 1993
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, engravings by Barry Moser
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It a film directed by Robert Redford
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Cornering the Market
December 3, 1992
Arcadia by Jim Crace
Nothing but Blue Skies by Thomas McGuane
Leviathan by Paul Auster
The Art of Hunger by Paul Auster
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Fatal Triangles
July 16, 1992
A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare by René Girard
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Frontier Fantasies
May 28, 1992
River of Traps: A Village Life University by William deBuys, by Alex Harris
Birds of Sorrow: Notes from a River Junction in Northern New Mexico
by Tom Ireland
A Garlic Testament
by Stanley Crawford
The Place Where Souls Are Born: A Journey to the Southwest by Thomas Keneally, Introduction by Jan Morris
A History of the Jews in New Mexico
by Henry J. Tobias
Jews of the American West edited by Moses Rischin, edited by John Livingston
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Reading Nabokov
April 23, 1992
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Fall of Valor
March 26, 1992
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone
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The Wizard of Lake Cayuga
January 30, 1992
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years by Brian Boyd
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The Floating Operetta
December 19, 1991
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
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A Good Minestrone
November 21, 1991
The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey
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Herman Roth
June 13, 1991
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life?
May 30, 1991
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The Reality Game
May 16, 1991
Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth
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Metropolitan Opera
April 25, 1991
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett
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What De Gaulle Really Said
December 20, 1990
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Was Cratylus Kidding?
December 6, 1990
The Names of Comedy
by Anne Barton
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Liberators
October 11, 1990
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Collected Novellas (Leaf Storm, Nobody Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold) by Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
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Tripping
June 28, 1990
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Protocols of Reading
May 17, 1990
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Tripping Over the Future
April 26, 1990
The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 17981984
by Don Gifford
Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by O.B. Hardison Jr.
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Lucy and Lucifer
March 1, 1990
Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory by M.H. Abrams, edited and with a foreword by Michael Fischer
An Appetite for Poetry by Frank Kermode
Protocols of Reading by Robert Scholes
Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions by Jonathan Culler
Critical Writings, 19531978 by Paul de Man, edited and with an introduction by Lindsay Waters
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From Abailard to Les Zutistes
February 1, 1990
A New History of French Literature edited by Denis Hollier
The Oxford Companion to French Literature by Sir Paul Harvey, by J.E. Heseltine
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Juggler
November 9, 1989
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
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Balancing Act
October 26, 1989
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
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I Porni
May 18, 1989
I modi: The Sixteen Pleasures: An Erotic Album of the Italian Renaissance by Giulio Romano, by Marcantonio Raimondi, by Pietro Aretino, by Count Jean-Frédéric-Maximilien de Waldeck, edited, translated, and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner
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Bunyan’s Progress
April 13, 1989
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Software Wars
March 30, 1989
Hence
by Brad Leithauser
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Alibi Alley
March 16, 1989
Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France by Natalie Zemon Davis
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Tolstoy in Embryo
March 2, 1989
A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 16281688 by Christopher Hill
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Tin Cans in the Rockies
February 16, 1989
The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States by Leo Marx
Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 19161984
edited by Mary Street Alinder, edited by Andrea Gray Stillman
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The Defoe File
December 22, 1988
The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe by P.N. Furbank, by W.R. Owens
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The Beast in the Jungle
November 10, 1988
Eliot’s New Life by Lyndall Gordon
The Letters of T.S. Eliot Vol. I, 18981922 edited by Valerie Eliot
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The Ideal Woman
August 18, 1988
Jane Austen: Her Life by Park Honan
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‘The Scandal of Ulysses’: An Exchange
August 18, 1988
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Great Tew, Continued
July 21, 1988
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Yes
June 30, 1988
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox
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Great Tew: An Exchange
June 16, 1988
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Charmed Circles
April 14, 1988
Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans: Seventeenth Century Essays
by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Archbishop William Laud
by Charles Carlton
Clarendon and His Friends by Richard Ollard
Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism c. 15901640 by Nicholas Tyacke
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The Case for Dryden
March 17, 1988
John Dryden and His World by James Anderson Winn
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Chaucer on Our Doorstep
February 4, 1988
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard
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Much Ado About Everything
November 19, 1987
The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition by Jan Kott, translated by Daniela Miedzyrzecka, by Lillian Valee
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Was It Archer City?
October 22, 1987
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The Bard of Wichita Falls
August 13, 1987
Texasville by Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
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Natives and Others
March 26, 1987
The Tewa World
by Alfonso Ortiz
Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature edited by John Bierhorst
Diné Bahane’: The Navajo Creation Story
translated by Paul G. Zolbrod
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe by Laurie Lisle
Edge of Taos Desert: Volume Four of Intimate Memories by Mabel Dodge Luhan
Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest essays by J.J. Brody, by Catherine J. Scott, by Steven A. LeBlanc, introduction by Tony Berlant
Santa Fe Style by Christine Mather, by Sharon Woods
New Mexico Style by Nancy Hunter Warren
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Yonder Shakespeare
March 26, 1987
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On the Trail of Santa Fe
March 12, 1987
New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State Project Administration. for the American Guide Series by the Writers' Program of the Works
New Mexico: A New Guide to the Colorful State by Lance Chilton, by Katherine Chilton, by Polly E. Arango, by James Dudley, by Nancy Neary, by Patricia Stelzner
Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range by William deBuys
Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region by Victor Westphall
Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 18001933 by G. Emlen Hall
New Mexico: A Bicentennial History by Marc Simmons
Along the Santa Fe Trail essay by Marc Simmons, photographs by Joan Myers
Haunted Highways: The Ghost Towns of New Mexico by Ralph Looney
Four Fighters of Lincoln County by Robert M. Utley
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The Nose Knows
November 20, 1986
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
by Alain Corbin
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, translated by John E. Woods
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New Bards for Old
November 6, 1986
On Shakespeare by Northrop Frye
Shakespeare and the Question of Theory edited by Patricia Parker, edited by Geoffrey Hartman
Shakespeare’s Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets by Joel Fineman
New Readings vs. Old Plays: Recent Trends in the Reinterpretation of English Renaissance Drama by Richard Levin
The Devil’s Party: Critical Counter-interpretations of Shakespearian Drama
by Harriett Hawkins
Shakespeare’s English and Roman History Plays by Paul N. Siegel
William Shakespeare
by Terry Eagleton
That Shakespeherian Rag by Terence Hawkes
Such is My Love: A Study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Joseph Pequigney
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Right Man, Wrong Job
May 8, 1986
Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini’s Visit to France by Paul Fréart de Chantelou, edited with an introduction by Anthony Blunt, annotated by George C. Bauer, translated by Margery Corbett
Bernini in France: An Episode in Seventeenth-Century History by Cecil Gould
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False Scents
April 10, 1986
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
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Putting Pope in His Place
March 13, 1986
Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack
Pope and Horace: Studies in Imitation by Frank Stack
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Jane Austen in Japan
February 13, 1986
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The Story Isn’t Over
July 18, 1985
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda Bogin
The Magic Kingdom by Stanley Elkin
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Hero of the Word
April 11, 1985
Using Biography
by William Empson
Collected Poems by William Empson
Sir William Empson: An Annotated Bibliography by Frank Day
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The Godfather’s Grandfather
December 20, 1984
The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga, translated by Raymond Rosenthal, with a new introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti
Mastro-Don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga, translated with an introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti
The She-Wolf and Other Stories by Giovanni Verga, translated with an introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti
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Animated Paradox
October 25, 1984
Swift: The Man, his Works, and the Age Vol. I, Mr. Swift and his Contemporaries
by Irvin Ehrenpreis
Swift: The Man, his Works, and the Age Vol. II, Dr. Swift
Swift: The Man, his Works, and the Age Vol. III, Dean Swift by Irvin Ehrenpreis
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Winter’s Tales
July 19, 1984
Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories by Saul Bellow
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Scrabbling in the ‘Wake’
May 31, 1984
Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of Finnegans Wake by Vincent John Cheng
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Royalty and Genius
May 10, 1984
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The Joy and Malice of It All
April 12, 1984
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by John Payne, revised and annotated by Charles S. Singleton
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Shaggy Dog Fable
September 29, 1983
Bluebeard: A Tale by Max Frisch, translated by Geoffrey Skelton
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Joyce and Company
August 18, 1983
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch
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Double Exposure
June 16, 1983
Ararat by D. M. Thomas
Tzili: The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Dalya Bilu
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Mulligan Stew
May 12, 1983
A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner
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Big Little Book
April 14, 1983
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
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Public Faces
August 12, 1982
The Portage to San Cristòbal of A.H. by George Steiner
The Frog Who Dared to Croak by Richard Sennett
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Shyster Saints
June 10, 1982
Take Five by D. Keith Mano
Dutch Shea, Jr. by John Gregory Dunne
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Chance-taker
April 29, 1982
Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever
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Desegregation
April 15, 1982
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Baroque Reading
March 4, 1982
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Jogging to the Abyss
March 4, 1982
All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman
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Just Plain Will
October 22, 1981
What Shakespeare Read-and Thought by A.L. Rowse
Shakespeare and Tragedy by John Bayley
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Ecstasy
September 24, 1981
Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts by Irving Lavin
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Devil’s Brew
March 5, 1981
The Egghead Republic: A Short Novel from the Horse Latitudes by Arno Schmidt, translated by Michael Horovitz, edited by Ernst Krawehl, edited by Marion Boyars
Evening Edged in Gold by Arno Schmidt, translated by John E. Woods
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The Cold Comedian
February 5, 1981
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim
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Nabokov’s Show
December 18, 1980
Lectures on Literature: British, French, and German Writers
by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Fredson Bowers, with an introduction by John Updike
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Moravia’s Victims
August 14, 1980
Time of Desecration by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson
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One Man’s Milton
June 26, 1980
Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton’s Poetry by Louis L. Martz
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Unhappy Landings
October 25, 1979
Cannibals and Missionaries by Mary McCarthy
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Blue Sheep Zen
September 28, 1978
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya by George B. Schaller
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The Hobbit Habit
November 24, 1977
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
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The Scholarly Life
September 29, 1977
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Wandering in Wayes Unknowne
June 23, 1977
The Analogy of The Faerie Queene by James Nohrnberg
Spenser’s Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination
by Isabel G. MacCaffrey
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The True Peru
May 27, 1976
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Ancient Incas and Modern Revolution
March 18, 1976
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A Cosmic and Practical Man
January 22, 1976
Findings and Keepings: Analects for an Autobiography by Lewis Mumford
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Haunted Landscape
October 16, 1975
Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance by Vincent Scully
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Good Trip
June 13, 1974
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
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Can Venice Be Saved?
April 5, 1973
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Attis Adonis Osiris Fitzgerald & Co.
January 27, 1972
Exiles from Paradise: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald by Sara Mayfield
Dear Scott/Dear Max: the Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence edited by John Kuehl, edited by Jackson Bryer
Living Well Is the Best Revenge
by Calvin Tomkins
The Golden Moment: The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald
by Milton R. Stern
Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood by Aaron Latham
F. Scott Fitzgerald in His Own Time, a Miscellany
edited by Matthew Bruccoli, edited by Jackson Bryer
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The High Wire of Faith
May 20, 1971
The Art of Ecstasy: Teresa, Bernini, and Crashaw by Robert T. Petersson
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Brautigan Was Here
April 22, 1971
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan
A Confederate General from Big Sur
by Richard Brautigan
Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar (Three works in one volume), by Richard Brautigan
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You Gotta Read Gadda
July 23, 1970
Acquainted with Grief by Carlo Emilio Gadda, translated by William Weaver
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Breakdowns
January 29, 1970
A Family Romance by Richard Wollheim
Camden’s Eyes by Austin Wright
Sick Friends by Ivan Gold
T Zero
by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
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“Ssh”
September 25, 1969
Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett
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Shrinking Literature
September 11, 1969
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Interfering with Literature
April 10, 1969
The Dynamics of Literary Response
by Norman N. Holland
The Return of the Vanishing American
by Leslie A. Fiedler
The Ordinary Universe by Denis Donoghue
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Reviving Spenser
June 6, 1968
Spenser’s World of Glass by Kathleen Williams
Spenser’s Images of Life by C.S. Lewis, edited by Alastair Fowler
The Poetry of “The Faerie Queene” by Paul J. Alpers
Allegorical Imagery by Rosemond Tuve
Spenser’s Image of Nature: Wild Man and Shepherd in “The Faerie Queene” by Donald Cheney
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Isn’t It Romantic?
February 15, 1968
Romantics at School by Morris Marples
The Mind of the European Romantics by H.G. Schenk
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Only an Editor
December 7, 1967
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Hospitality
October 26, 1967
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Ajax’s Sheep
October 12, 1967
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Crier in the Wilderness
August 24, 1967
The Edward Dahlberg Reader edited with an Introduction by Paul Carroll
Epitaphs of Our Times: The Letters of Edward Dahlberg anonymously edited by Edwin Seaver
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Restorations
October 20, 1966
The Unpossessed by Tess Slesinger, with an Afterword by Lionel Trilling
Towards a Better Life by Kenneth Burke
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Nabokov’s Game
January 14, 1965
The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, Translated from the Russian in collaboration with the author by Michael Scammel
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Throwing up Absurd
December 3, 1964
Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Nova Express
by William S. Burroughs
The Invention of Morel (and other stories from La Trama Celeste) by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Us He Devours by James B. Hall
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Critical Cases
October 22, 1964
Joyce’s Benefictions by Helmut Bonheim
Rilke, Valery and Yeats, the Domain of the Self by Priscilla Washburn Shaw
Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts by Maurice Beebe
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
July 9, 1964
What Time Collects by James T. Farrell
The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss
The President by R.V. Cassill
Fight Night on a Sweet Saturday by Mary Lee Settle
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Love in the Western World
May 28, 1964
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New Short Stories
April 30, 1964
Prize Stories 1964: The O. Henry Awards edited by Richard Poirier
Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme
Three: 1964 by R.H. Robinson, by E.R. Widmer, by E. Pohoryles
Emblems of Conduct
by Donald Windham
Behold Goliath by Alfred Chester
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Two Philosophical Critics
April 16, 1964
Three Philosophilcal Novelists by Joseph Brennan
Wait Without Idols by Gabriel Vahanian
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Hit and Miss
April 2, 1964
Second Skin by John Hawkes
A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker
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Couldn’t Put It Down
March 5, 1964
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
Von Ryan’s Express by David Westheimer
Three Beds in Manhattan by George Simenon
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Petit Guignol
January 23, 1964
The Wanting Seed and Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess
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Three Novels
November 14, 1963
The Will by Harvey Swados
Cause for Wonder by Wright Morris
Confusions by Jack Ludwig
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Nacht und Tag
October 17, 1963
The Benefactor by Susan Sontag