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"The Sage of Slabslides" New Criterion 12:4 (December 1993) 68-70. Review.

  • Edward Kanze, The World of John Burroughs

 

"Ernst Machs Max Ernst" New Literary History 9:1 (Autumn 1977) 137-148. Essay.

GD's subject is "the confrontation of self in imaginative writing" and also a response to Richard Pevear's review of Tatlin! ("Tatlin!, or the Limits of Fiction" Hudson Review (Spring 1975) 141-146) he discusses his approach to making the six stories that comprise Tatlin! (1974).

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"Of Gods and Shepherds" New York Times Book Review (June 9, 1968) 36. Review.

  • Anton Donchev, Time of Parting. Translation from the Bulgarian, Vreme Razdelno

"A Rebel Reappraised" New York Times Book Review (June 30, 1968) 10. Review.

  • Paul Nizan, Aden, Arabie

"Dark Psychological Weather" New York Times Book Review (September 15, 1968) 4. Review.

  • Shirley Jackson, Come Along With Me: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures. Ed. Stanley Edgar Hyman

"Appalachian Gothic" New York Times Book Review (September 29, 1968) 4. Review.

  • Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

"Like Nothing Nameable" New York Times Book Review (October 20, 1968) 4, 63. Review.

  • John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice

[Untitled Review] New York Times Book Review (November 24, 1968) 5, 71.

  • John O'Hara, And Other Stories

GD's review prompted an exchange of letters. See "Horse vs. Car" in the New York Times Book Review  (January 5, 1969) p. 35.

[Untitled Review] New York Times Book Review (February 16, 1969) 1, 40.

  • Jean Stafford, Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

"The Dilemmas of a Solid Citizen of Kansas City, Who Had Everything and Nothing" New York Times Book Review (April 20, 1969) 1, 30.

  • Evan S. Connell, Mr. Bridge

"What Seam of Civilization Came Apart Last Week? Frank Meyer Knows" New York Times Book Review (May 11, 1969) 4.

  • Frank S. Meyer, The Conservative Mainstream

[Untitled Review] New York Times Book Review (June 15, 1969) 5, 31.

  • Louis Zukofsky, Ferdinand

"They Revealed the Truth in a Pattern of Lies" New York Times Book Review (June 15, 1969) 32-33.

  • Robert Shaw, A Card From Morocco

"No One Ever Left the Apostles" New York Times Book Review (June 15, 1969) 38.

  • Leslie Thomas, The Love Beach

"A Tame Skelton in the Closet, Illusion in the Parlor" New York Times Book Review (September 28, 1969) 52-53.

  • Sumner Locke Elliott, Edens Lost

"True Love in the Boston Free Library" New York Times Book Review (October 26, 1969) 61.

  • Review of Julian Moynahan, Pairing Off

"Dependent on a Private Understanding of the World" New York Times Book Review (December 14, 1969) 54-55.

  • Richard Wilbur, Walking To Sleep
  • James Schuyler, Freely Espousing

"A Writer Who Never Found His Audience or Himself" New York Times Book Review (January 4, 1970) 8.

  • William Blackburn, ed., Love, Boy: The Letters of Mac Hyman

"Love Is Always Too Early and Never Too Late" New York Times Book Review (January 25, 1970) 4-5.

  • V. S. Pritchett, Blind Love And Other Stories

"By Erskine Caldwell Out of Flannery O'Connor" New York Times BookReview (May 3, 1970) 4.

  • Eleanor Glaze, The Embrace And Other Stories

[Untitled Review] New York Times Book Review (July 12, 1970) 6-7.

  • Gore Vidal, Two Sisters: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel

"Doomed, Damned -- and Unaware" New York Times Book Review (October 11, 1970) 4.

  • Review of Reynolds Price, Permanent Errors

"Within The Novel Is a Novel, Within That Novel Is a Diary" New York Times Book Review (November 15, 1970) 4, 61

  • James Purdy, Jeremy's Version: Part One of Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys

[Untitled Review] New York Times Book Review (February 14, 1971) 7.

  • Frederick Buechner, Lion Country

"The Last in a Series of Novels As Alike As a Row of Bayonets" New York Times Book Review (August 15, 1971) 2-3.

  • I. Compton-Burnett, The Last and the First

[Untitled Review] New York Times Book Review (January 16, 1972) 6, 22.

  • John W. Aldridge, The Devil In The Fire: Retrospective Essays on American Literature and Culture, 1951-1971

Exchange of letters between author and GD, New York Times Book Review (April 29, 1972) 30-31.

"Hugh Kenner, X-ray Technician" New York Times Book Review (March 26, 1972) 47.

Essay.

"Collision With the Outside World" New York Times Book Review (April 16, 1972) 5, 18.

  • Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

"Victorian Oedipus Manqué" New York Times Book Review (October 8, 1972) 2, 16.

  • Beverly Nichols, Father Figure

"Maisie Markham Dreamed Her Life Like a Lucky Emma Bovary" New York Times Book Review (April 15, 1973) 15.

  • Angus Wilson and Philippe Jullian, For Whom The Cloche Tolls

"The Hero is an Idea, the Setting a Man’s Mind" New York Times Book Review (September 1, 1974) 4.

  • Evan S. Connell, The Connoisseur

"Two English Comedies, One That Works" New York Times Book Review (June 8, 1975) 6-7.

  • Harriet Waugh, Mirror Mirror
  • Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing

 

"Yes 'Trees' Is Popular With the Rotarians, Yes, It's Vulnerable. But, Then . . . " New York Times (January 28, 1978) 21.

Essay.

"Ozymandias" New York Times (May 28, 1978) 15.

Essay.

"Pound Reading" New York Times Book Review (January 14, 1979) 9, 31.

  • Richard Sieburth, Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont
"Hobbits in Kentucky" New York Times (February 23, 1979) A27.

Essay.

"Poet's Romance" New York Times Book Review (July 15, 1979)12, 33-34.

  • Norman Holmes Pearson and Michael King, eds., A Memoir of Ezra Pound by H. D.; with the Poems From 'Hilda's Book' by Ezra Pound

"In Late Eclectic Modern" New York Times Book Review (August 10, 1980) 15.

  • Gilbert Sorrentino, Aberration of Starlight
"Pergolesi's Dog" New York Times (August 20, 1980) A3.

Essay.

"An Irish Story Teller" New York Times Book Review (November 16, 1980) 1, 37-38.

  • Benedict Kiely, The State of Ireland

"A Novel of Life in a Small World" New York Times Book Review (April 19, 1981) 1, 22.

  • G. B. Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

"Trees' Rings and History's Cycles" New York Times (Saturday, August 1, 1981) 25. Essay.

This is at p. 19 in some regional editions.

"The Novel: A Conjunction of Opposites" New York Times Book Review (March 21, 1982) 3, 26.

  • Carlos Fuentes, Distant Relations

Subsequently published with the title "Distant Relations: A Conjunction of Opposites" in the Review of Contemporary Fiction (Summer 1988) 238-240.

"From Indifference to Attention" New York Times Book Review (April 4, 1982) 13, 30.

Essay.

"In Love With All Things Made" New York Times Book Review (October 17, 1982) 9.

  • David Jones, The Roman Quarry and Other Sequences
  • William Blissett, The Long Conversation: A Memoir of David Jones

"Don Quixote Restored" New York Times Book Review (February 13, 1983) 3, 34-35. Essay.

Published also as the Foreword to Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Don Quixote, ed. Fredson Bowers.

Letters (2) to the Editor, New York Times Book Review (March 6, 1983) 35.

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NYT / NYTBR Begin     

"Christ Preaching at the Henley Regatta" Guy Davenport and Roy R. Behrens. North American Review [Grand Rapids, IA: University of Northern Iowa] 264:2 (Summer 1979) 18-25. Story.

GD's story is intersticed with eight collages by Roy R. Behrens.

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"Strength and Beauty Abound in Egyptian Literature" Our University [Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Public Affairs Office] 8:5 (September 1965) 3. Essay.

Includes BW photograph of GD (aet. 36), with collared shirt, tie, crew-neck sweater, without spectacles.

Sidebar provides a biographical sketch of GD.

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