Letters
Volume 35, Number 1
November-December 2013
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Patrick Bixby’s Introduction to Focus: “Not-So-Dead-Letters”
Gregory Castle reviews Ann Saddlemyer, ed., W.B. Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters
Geoffrey Lindsay reviews Jonathan F.S. Post, ed., The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht
Paul Sheehan reviews Paul Austor and J.M. Coetzee, eds., Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
