Preface | p. ix |
Locations: An Introduction | p. xiii |
Old New York | |
Bartleby in Manhattan | p. 3 |
Mrs. Wharton in New York | p. 15 |
Henry James: On Washington Square | p. 36 |
Americans Abroad | |
The Genius of Margaret Fuller | p. 51 |
A Bunch of Reds: John Reed | p. 75 |
Gertrude Stein | p. 92 |
The Fate of the Gifted: Djuna Barnes | p. 104 |
Wind from the Prairie | |
The Prairie Poets: Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, and Edgar Lee Masters | p. 115 |
Anderson, Millay, and Crane in Their Letters | p. 133 |
Victims and Victors | |
Seduction and Betrayal | p. 143 |
Zelda | p. 168 |
Sylvia Plath | p. 181 |
Eugene O'Neill: A Sketch | p. 198 |
Snapshots | |
Mary McCarthy | p. 207 |
Nabokov: Master Class | p. 212 |
Elizabeth Bishop | p. 218 |
The Sense of the Present | |
Guilt, Character, Possibilities | p. 227 |
Fictions of America | |
Cheever; or, The Ambiguities | p. 239 |
Citizen Updike | p. 251 |
Paradise Lost: Philip Roth | p. 265 |
In the Wasteland: Joan Didion | p. 277 |
Reckless People: Richard Ford | p. 287 |
Lives | |
Katherine Anne Porter | p. 299 |
Edmund Wilson | p. 308 |
Truman Capote: Tru Confessions | p. 320 |
Norman Mailer: The Teller and the Tape | p. 333 |
Index | p. 343 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 353 |
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