By Jerome Klinkowitz
Klinkowitz’ accomplished Introduction presents the clearest, liveliest exploration to this point of the technical and critical advancements within the paintings of the unconventional during the last decades. Using various techniques from polemic and lyric to non-public witness, Klinkowitz discusses John Updike, Grace Paley, Robley Wilson, Ishmael Reed, John Gardner, Thomas McGuane, John Irving, Richard Yates, John Barth, Jerzy Kosinski, Dan Wakefield, and Tom Glynn.
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