Contents:
  • George Gissing: A neurotic for our times
  • H.G. Wells: The beginning of wisdom
  • Loren Eiseley: Excavating the self
  • Randall Jarrell: Reading to save his life
  • Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the end of the Jew as metaphor
  • Allen Ginsberg: America's holy fool
  • Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Richard Ford: Tenderhearted men
  • James Baldwin and V.S. Naipaul: America made the difference.