The Story about the Story

Contents

The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature

Table of Contents:

1) Charles D’Ambrosio, “Salinger and Sobs.”
2) Virginia Woolf, “An Essay in Criticism.”
3) Sven Birkerts, “On a Stanza by John Keats.”
4) William Gass, “In Terms of the Toenail: Fiction and the Figures of Life.”
5) Dagoberto Gilb, “The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy.”
6) Vladimir Nabokov, “The Metamorphosis.”
7) Alain De Botton, Excerpt from How Proust Can Change Your Life.
8) Seamus Heaney, “Learning from Eliot.”
9) Salman Rushdie, “Out of Kansas.”
10) J.C. Hallman, “Portentous Evil.”
11) Michael Chabon, “The Other James.”
12) Cynthia Ozick, “Truman Capote Reconsidered.”
13) James Wood, “What Chekhov Meant by Life.”
14) D.H. Lawrence, “Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick.’”
15) Geoff Dyer, Excerpt from Out of Sheer Rage.
16) Czeslaw Milosz, “Robert Frost.”
17) Phyllis Rose, Excerpt from The Year of Reading Proust.
18) Randall Jarrell, “The Humble Animal.”
19) Susan Sontag, “Loving Dostoevsky.”
20) Edward Hirsch, Excerpt from How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry.
21) E.B. White, “A Slight Sound at Evening.”
22) Walter Kirn, “Goodbye, Holden Caulfield.  I mean it, Go!  Goodbye!”
23) Oscar Wilde, “Mr. Pater’s Last Volume.”
24) Fred Setterberg, “Into Some Wild Places with Ernest Hemingway.”
25) Robert Hass, “Lowell’s Graveyard.”
26) Hermann Hesse, “Thoughts on ‘The Idiot’ by Dostoevsky.”
27) Frank O’Connor, “An Author in Search of a Subject.”
28) David Lodge, “Waugh’s Comic Masterpiece.”
29) Milan Kundera, “Somewhere Behind.”
30) Albert Camus, “Herman Melville.”
31) Wallace Stegner, “On Steinbeck’s Story ‘Flight.’” 

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