I don’t aspire at present to be king of the hill …– Mark Helprin
I don’t aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.
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I don’t aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
I’ve immersed myself in reading more and more of American literature, but no editor has asked me to comment on Jonathan Franzen or Jennifer Egan.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait
When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly
I think if German literature could survive the ’40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.
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