The Sixties at Fifty, Part II
Volume 35, Number 4
May-June 2014
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Charles B. Harris’s Introduction to Focus — ’60s at 50: Great Books, Great Readers
Marjorie Perloff’s “Studying Lit in the ’60s”
Tom LeClair reviews Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
Steven Moore reviews Robert Coover’s Brunist Day of Wrath
Jerome Klinkowitz reviews Kurt Vonnegut’s Sucker’s Portfolio
Stephen J. Burn reviews Richard Powers’s Orfeo
Robert L. McLaughlin reviews Joseph McElroy’s Cannonball
Feature: Into the Woods
Claudette Bakhtiar reviews Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest
Christopher X. Shade reviews D. Foy’s Made to Break
Christopher Tuthill reviews Ron Riekki, ed., in The Way North
Nathan Deuel reviews David Matlin’s Up Fish Creek Road
Kolby Harvey reviews Gabe Durham’s Fun Camp
Book Reviews
John Tytell reviews Barry Miles’s Call Me Burroughs
Christopher Leise reviews Sergio De La Pava’s Personae
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Ronald Johnson’s Ark
Cay Dollerup reviews Jack Zipes’s The Irresistible Fairy Tale
Roch C. Smith reviews Ben Stolzfus’s Cat O’ Nine Tails
Eugene Wildman reviews James D. Redwood’s Love beneath the Napalm
Alan Birkelback reviews David Bowels’s Flower, Song, Dance
Ron Cooper reviews Juan Ochoa’s Mariguano
John Griswold reviews Scott McClanahan’s Craplachia
Jessica Berger reviews Gregory Robinson’s All Movies Love the Moon
Laura Krughoff reviews Rachel Hoffman’s Packer and Jack
Gary Lain reviews Mel Freilicher’s The Encyclopedia of Rebels
Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Wayne Macauley’s The Cook
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