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Jerome Klinkowitz
Contrasts between fighter combat and the bombers’ war support Klinkowitz’s belief that notions of the air war were determined by one’s position in it.
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In this comprehensive introductory study, originally published in 1982, Jerome Klinkowitz traces Vonnegut’s influences within the American middle class, his early efforts as a short-story writer for magazines in the…
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Considering both Vonnegut’s methods and the cultural needs they have served, Klinkowitz explains how those works came to be written and concludes with an assessment of the author’s place in…
Presents insights into Vonnegut’s extensive nonfiction as a key to understanding innovation in his novels. This title offers an assessment of the artistry of Kurt Vonnegut, known not only as…
A fresh assessment of Wright focusing on the evolution of his thinking and writings from the 1890s to the 1950s, showing how his ideas for living emerged from the nineteenth…
A witty, intelligent, first-person account of what Kurt Vonnegut, Jerzy Kosinski, Donald Barthelme, and other important writers of the last three decades wrote, how they wrote it, and what it…
If, as the literary theorists of postmodernism contend, content does not exist, then how can fiction continue to be written? Jerome Klinkowitz, himself a veteran practitioner and theorist of fiction…
Explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism. In place of the rigid social structures…
Discusses the work of three critics who came to prominence in the 1960s, an era of social, ideological, and aesthetic turmoil. Sharing a disdain for modernism’s authoritarianism, elitism, and sterile…
In the twelve months centered around the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a diverse group of American and British flyers fought one of the most remarkable air campaigns of WWII.
Provides a history of air combat in the Pacific theatre. Included are the words of such famous aces and bomber pilots as Joe Foss, Pappy Boyington, Dick Bong, and Curtis…
Jerry Klinkowitz
The author of Short Season and Writing Baseball presents poetry and short fiction on America’s pastime. I have known Jerry Klinkowitz only as one of this country’s most interesting and…
Kurt Vonnegut
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers.
