Writers People Love to Hate
Volume 38, Number 4
May-June 2017
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Introduction to Focus: Eric Miles Williamson’s “Writers People Love to Hate”
Joseph D. Haske’s “Hemingway: A Critical Feast”
Michael Gills’s “The Retaliator: Norman Mailer in Arkansas”
Ron Cooper’s “Depravity is a Thing of the Spirit: Hating Henry Crews”
Daniel Manuel Mendoza’s “Reading Henry Miller in the New Millennium”
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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.
