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American fiction

Soft in tooth and claw
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Endjokes
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Lives of the artists
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The fiction scene
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Or, has anybody seen Billygoat Gruff lately?

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The well-spoken passions of William H. Gass
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Joan Didion
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Portrait of a professional

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“Oates”
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Thing of darkness
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A skeptical look at some prize novels
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The art of Nabokov
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J.D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit
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A suggestion that the literary hero of theYounger Set — the Great Phony-slayer — may, justpossibly, be a bit of a phony himself. WHO is to inherit the mantle of Papa Hemingway?…

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