Re: ‘Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers’ with Edward Mendelson

[Dave Monroe]

http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/collections/moral-agents-eight-twentieth-century-american-writers/

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Date: Sun, Feb 22, 2015, 11 am
> Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd St
> Venue: Weill Art Gallery
> Price: from $35.00
>
> Drawing on newly published letters and diaries, Edward Mendelson
> offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight
> influential 20th-century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight
> Macdonald, W. H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin,
> Norman Mailer and Frank O’Hara.
>
> http://www.92y.org/Event/Moral-Agents.aspx
>
> Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers
>
> http://www.randomhouse.com/book/239456/moral-agents-eight-twentieth-century-american-writers-by-edward-mendelson/9781590177761
>
> His work on Thomas Pynchon includes Pynchon: A Collection of Critical
> Essays (1978) and numerous essays, including "The Sacred, the Profane,
> and The Crying of Lot 49 (1975; reprinted in the 1978 collection) and
> "Gravity's Encyclopedia" (in Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas
> Pynchon. The latter essay introduced the critical category of
> "encyclopedic narrative, further elaborated in a later essay,
> "Encyclopedic Narrative from Dante to Pynchon".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mendelson
>
> Pynchon’s Mrs. Dalloway
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/sep/27/pynchon-woolf-women/
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