August 1983 Issue [Palpitations] Mooing in the meadows of love Download PDF Adjust Share Confessional novels that give real life a bad name by James Wolcott, Subscribe or log in to continue reading. Tags C.D.B.(Courtland Dixon Barnes) Bryan Confession in literature Ellen Schwamm Lisa Zeidner Nora Ephron Reviews More from James Wolcott Philip Larkin’s enormous yes A connoisseur of doom whose wit refuses to die Hammett’s long goodbye A deferential biography of literature's Marlboro man The prince of finesse Nine hundred pages of criticism prove that John Updike is no air-dancing dandy Adjust Share