Robert Towers (1923–1995) was an American critic and novelist. Born in Virginia, Towers was educated at Princeton and served for two years as Vice Counsel at the American Consulate General in Calcutta before dedicating himself to literary studies. He taught English literature and creative writing at Princeton, Queens College and Columbia.
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Look Homeward, Ira
March 3, 1994
Mercy of a Rude Stream: Volume 1, A Star Shines over Mt. Morris Park by Henry Roth
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Far from Saigon
August 12, 1993
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
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Out of the Blue
March 25, 1993
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court by Peter Taylor
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House of Cards
June 25, 1992
The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
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Secret Histories
April 9, 1992
Vox by Nicholson Baker
A Case of Curiosities by Allen Kurzweil
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The World We Live In
January 16, 1992
The Translator by Ward Just
Joe by Larry Brown
The Dylanist
by Brian Morton
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Believe It or Not
October 24, 1991
The Kindness of Women
by J.G. Ballard
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History Novel
June 27, 1991
Mao II by Don DeLillo
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Tripping the Not-So-Light Fantastic
April 25, 1991
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by John Barth
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Enigma Variations
January 17, 1991
The Music of Chance
by Paul Auster
East Is East
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Traffic and Laughter by Ted Mooney
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Inconclusive Evidence
August 16, 1990
The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow
The Music Room by Dennis McFarland
In a Father’s Place by Christopher Tilghman
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Short Satisfactions
May 17, 1990
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
Family Sins and Other Stories by William Trevor
Men Under Water by Ralph Lombreglia
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You Can Go Home Again
December 7, 1989
Affliction by Russell Banks
Mile Zero by Thomas Sanchez
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The Raw and the Cooked
July 20, 1989
Dead Languages by David Shields
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
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Mystery Women
April 27, 1989
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
A Theft by Saul Bellow
The Whiteness of Bones by Susanna Moore
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Intruders in the Dust
February 16, 1989
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Shine Hawk by Charlie Smith
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Roughing It
November 10, 1988
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
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From the Grassy Knoll
August 18, 1988
Libra by Don DeLillo
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The Way We Live Now
March 31, 1988
The Book and The Brotherhood
by Iris Murdoch
Found in the Street
by Patricia Highsmith
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All-American Novels
January 21, 1988
Paco’s Story by Larry Heinemann
That Night
by Alice McDermott
Cigarettes by Harry Mathews
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Grace Street Blues
November 19, 1987
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
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Breaking the Spell
October 8, 1987
Three Continents by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Talkative Man by R.K. Narayan
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Danger Zones
June 25, 1987
The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
The Rug Merchant by Phillip Lopate
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Don’t Mind If I Do
February 12, 1987
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The Wild Blue Yonder
December 18, 1986
Diary of a Yuppie
by Louis Auchincloss
Pubis Angelical by Manuel Puig, translated by Elena Brunet
Paper Doll by Jim Shepard
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Ways Down South
September 25, 1986
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
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Good News
June 26, 1986
The News from Ireland and Other Stories by William Trevor
Monkeys by Susan Minot
Transactions in a Foreign Currency
by Deborah Eisenberg
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Screams and Whispers
April 24, 1986
Gerald’s Party by Robert Coover
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
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Three-Part Inventions
December 19, 1985
World’s Fair by E.L. Doctorow
Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Where She Was by Anderson Ferrell
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Moveable Types
August 15, 1985
Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge
Later the Same Day by Grace Paley
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
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Uprooted
April 11, 1985
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
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Light and Lively
December 6, 1984
Difficult Loves
by Italo Calvino
Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories by E.L. Doctorow
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Good Pix from Stix
May 31, 1984
Places in the World a Woman Could Walk
by Janet Kauffman
Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
Edisto by Padgett Powell
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El Novel
December 8, 1983
The Death of Che Guevara
by Jay Cantor
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Closing Time
June 2, 1983
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
The London Embassy by Paul Theroux
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Violent Places
March 31, 1983
The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake foreword by James Alan McPherson, afterword by John Casey
Ironweed by William Kennedy
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Complaint
December 16, 1982
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American Graffiti
December 16, 1982
The Woods by David Plante
A Midnight Clear by William Wharton
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
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Complaint
October 21, 1982
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Good Men Are Hard to Find
August 12, 1982
The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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So Big
June 24, 1982
Mickelsson’s Ghosts
by John Gardner
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Moby-Dad
April 15, 1982
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
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The Old Country
April 1, 1982
Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan
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Reservations
November 5, 1981
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
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On the Indian World-Mountain
September 24, 1981
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
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Comic Schemes
June 25, 1981
Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark
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Low-Rent Tragedies
May 14, 1981
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Lifetime by Scott Sommer
Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
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Reconciliations
March 19, 1981
The Company of Women by Mary Gordon
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The Good Ship Britannia
December 18, 1980
Rites of Passage
by William Golding
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Mississippi Myths
December 4, 1980
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
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He Had What It Takes
September 25, 1980
Kipling, Auden & Co. Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964 by Randall Jarrell
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To the Greenhouse
August 14, 1980
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
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Cautionary Tale
June 12, 1980
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party by Graham Greene
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Period Fiction
May 15, 1980
Falling in Place by Ann Beattie
The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard
The Passion Artist by John Hawkes
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Fair Play
February 7, 1980
On the Edge of the Cliff
by V.S. Pritchett
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Return to Sender
December 20, 1979
Letters
by John Barth
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Cuisine Minceur
November 8, 1979
Problems and Other Stories
by John Updike
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In the Trap
October 11, 1979
The Tree House Confessions by James McConkey
Ghost Images by Stephen Minot
Let the Lion Eat Straw
by Ellease Southerland
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Stingo’s Story
July 19, 1979
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
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Flannery O’Connor’s Gifts
May 3, 1979
The Habit of Being letters by Flannery O'Connor, edited and with an introduction by Sally Fitzgerald
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In Extremis
March 8, 1979
Birdy
by William Wharton
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
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Wanderers
January 25, 1979
Great Days by Donald Barthelme
Ladies Man by Richard Price
Wrinkles by Charles Simmons
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Light Touch
November 9, 1978
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
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Good Grief!
July 20, 1978
On Moral Fiction
by John Gardner
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Steerage
July 20, 1978
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Forced Marches
June 15, 1978
Airships by Barry Hannah
Detour
by Michael Brodsky
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Tales of Manhattan
May 18, 1978
New York Jew by Alfred Kazin
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The Delmore File
March 23, 1978
Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet by James Atlas
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz, foreword by Irving Howe, introduction by James Atlas
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Below Suspicion
January 26, 1978
True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
Transatlantic Blues by Wilfrid Sheed
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One-Man Band
October 27, 1977
The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
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Nixon’s Seventh Crisis
September 29, 1977
The Public Burning by Robert Coover
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A Silent Ring
September 15, 1977
Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner
by Jonathan Yardley
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India’s Long Night
July 14, 1977
India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul
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Southern Discomfort
March 31, 1977
Lancelot by Walker Percy
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Up the River
March 17, 1977
Falconer by John Cheever
A Place to Come To by Robert Penn Warren
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So It Went
November 25, 1976
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut