Roger Sale is a critic and journalist. Until 1999, he was Professor of English at the University of Washington. His books include Modern Heroism: Essays on D. H. Lawrence, William Empson and J.R.R. Tolkien and On Not Being Good Enough: Writings of a Working Critic.
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Two-Eyed Jacks
June 2, 1983
The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez
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Nuclear City
September 23, 1982
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Our Town
April 29, 1982
Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World’s Largest Atomic Complex by Paul Loeb
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Life With Father
August 13, 1981
Dad by William Wharton
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Golden Gaits
March 5, 1981
Laughing in the Hills by Bill Barich
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Stranger than Nonfiction
May 29, 1980
Freddy’s Book
by John Gardner
The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams
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Stubborn Steinbeck
March 20, 1980
The Intricate Music: A Biography of John Steinbeck by Thomas Kiernan
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Love and War
February 22, 1979
The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford
Hunt
by A. Alvarez
Dubin’s Lives
by Bernard Malamud
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Portrait of the Artist
October 26, 1978
Fools Die by Mario Puzo
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Monkey Business
April 20, 1978
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Picking Up the Pieces
February 23, 1978
Refiner’s Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Foundling by Mark Helprin
In Such Dark Places by Joseph Caldwell
I Heard My Sister Speak My Name by Thomas Savage
Natural Shocks by Richard Stern
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Hurled into Vietnam
December 8, 1977
Dispatches by Michael Herr
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In Hardy Country
June 23, 1977
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Hostages
May 26, 1977
Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
Who Is Teddy Villanova?
by Thomas Berger
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
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A Family Matter
September 16, 1976
The Lardners: My Family Remembered by Ring Lardner Jr.
Some Champions by Ring Lardner, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, by Richard Layman
The Story of a Wonder Man by Ring Lardner
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Hooked!
May 27, 1976
Life on the Run by Bill Bradley
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
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Murder, she says.
April 29, 1976
Curtain by Agatha Christie
The Dangerous Edge by Gavin Lambert
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Fathers & Fathers & Sons
November 13, 1975
Northern Lights
by Tim O'Brien
Look How the Fish Live by J.F. Powers
Beyond the Bedroom Wall by Larry Woiwode
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From Ragtime to Riches
August 7, 1975
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
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Typing It Up
June 26, 1975
A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley
Pages from a Cold Island by Frederick Exley
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Bringing the News
April 3, 1975
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
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The Hammett Case
February 6, 1975
The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett, selected and with an introduction by Steven Marcus
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Winter’s Tales
December 12, 1974
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
by Iris Murdoch
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
The Last Days of Louisiana Red by Ishmael Reed
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
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The Way We Live Now
August 8, 1974
The War Between the Tates by Alison Lurie
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The Dangers of Nostalgia
June 27, 1974
Let’s Fall in Love by Carol Hill
The Sightseer by Geoffrey Wolff
Bijou by David Madden
The Wanderers by Richard Price
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Wrestling With Fiction
March 21, 1974
Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer by Alfred Kazin
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General Practitioners
February 7, 1974
Interpretations and Forecasts: 1922-1972
by Lewis Mumford
Earth, Inc. by R. Buckminster Fuller
The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller by R. Buckminster Fuller, by Robert Marks
Utopia or Oblivion by R. Buckminster Fuller
Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller by Hugh Kenner
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A Dirty Dean and a Brazen Head
February 8, 1973
American Mischief by Alan Lelchuk
The Manticore by Robertson Davies
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
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Playboys and a Working Woman
January 25, 1973
Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright by Steven Millhauser
The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
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Plunging into Life
October 5, 1972
Captain Blackman
by John A. Williams
The Car Thief by Theodore Weesner
The Needle’s Eye
by Margaret Drabble
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I Am a Novel
June 29, 1972
The Confession of a Child of the Century, by Samuel Heather by Thomas Rogers
End Zone by Don DeLillo
Eat of Me, I am the Savior by Arnold Kemp
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Whom Can You Trust?
May 4, 1972
Hide Fox, and All After by Rafael Yglesias
Muriel by George P. Elliott
Rites of Passage by Joanne Greenberg
Hermaphrodeity by Alan Friedman
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That Kind of Novel
February 24, 1972
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Keeping Up with the News
December 16, 1971
Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig
Three Trapped Tigers by G. Cabrera Infante
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A Put-On?
December 2, 1971
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What Went Wrong?
October 21, 1971
The Blood Oranges by John Hawkes
The Tenants by Bernard Malamud
St. Urbain’s Horseman by Mordecai Richler
Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates
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Hello Out There
August 12, 1971
U.S. Journal
by Calvin Trillin
Listening to America by Bill Moyers
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Watchman, What of the Night?
May 6, 1971
Of a Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
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Cities and “The City”
January 28, 1971
Cities on the Move by Arnold Toynbee
The Meaning of the City by Jacques Ellul
Beyond Habitat by Mosche Safdie
The Architecture Machine by Nicholas Negroponte