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A perennially intriguing writer placed in the context of her troubled times and our own

Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality brings together essays by a number of distinguished O'Connor…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534130/The-Realist-Short-Story-of-the-Powerful-Glimpse
An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver

Taking a distinctively aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry M…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533951/Trimalchio-by-F-Scott-Fitzgerald
Allows today's readers to observe the development of Fitzgerald's great novel

In November 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald sent the typescript for his third novel, tentatively titled "Trimalchi…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534182/Understanding-Charles-Wright
A literary roadmap to navigating the "trilogy of trilogies" by one of America's most celebrated poets

Named the U.S. poet laureate in 2014, Charles Wright has received the PEN Translati…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533794/Understanding-Ursula-K-Le-Guin-revised-edition
Ever since Ursula K. Le Guin's first novel appeared as one half of an Ace Double paperback in 1966, she has become one of the most important writers in the field of science fiction. This book…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533732/Understanding-Vladimir-Nabokov
Understanding Contemporary American Literature was planned as a series of guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers. The word understanding in the series titles was…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534917/Understanding-Etheridge-Knight-updated-edition
"Collins has written the book that Knight has long deserved."—American Literary Scholarship

Understanding Etheridge Knight introduces readers to a major—but understudied—American poet.…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534005/Some-Sort-of-Epic-Grandeur-second-edition
The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and updated

Since its first publication in 1981, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur has stood apart from other biographies of F. Scott Fitzge…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533900/Reading-Mystical-Lyric
The first ciritcal approach to Rumi's canon of verse

Jalal al-Din Rumi, a towering figure in the Persian speaking world, is currently the most widely published poet in English translati…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533843/O-Beulah-Land
O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet—Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom—is…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700