in which I make the case against tedious criticism (and for myself)

  ‘Two Letters from Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy’ ‘Theodore Dreiser in the US Communist Press’ ‘Some Thoughts about Dreiser’ ‘Shostakovich’   “I find current academic writing excruciatingly boring and pointless. It is completely cut off from reality.” — Arun Mukherjee   The following are some essays from the journal American Literary History — from … Continue reading in which I make the case against tedious criticism (and for myself)