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| Introduction : a mirror in the roadway | 1 | |
| The city as text : New York and the American writer | 17 | |
| The Second City (Chicago writers) | 36 | |
| Upton Sinclair and the urban jungle | 41 | |
| A radical comedian (Sinclair Lewis) | 51 | |
| The magic of contradictions : Willa Cather's lost lady | 60 | |
| The authority of failure (F. Scott Fitzgerald) | 77 | |
| Edmund Wilson : three phases | 89 | |
| A glint of malice (Mary McCarthy) | 96 | |
| Silence, exile, cunning | 104 | |
| The modern writer as exile | 104 | |
| An outsider in his own life (Samuel Beckett) | 115 | |
| Kafka in love | 119 | |
| Hope against hope : Orwell and the future | 126 | |
| Magical realism | 137 | |
| The pornography of power (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) | 137 | |
| A fishy tale (Gunter Grass) | 140 | |
| Talking dogs and pioneers (S. Y. Agnon) | 144 | |
| Sea change : Celine in America | 153 | |
| The complex fate of the Jewish American writer | 168 | |
| The face in the mirror : the eclipse of distance in contemporary fiction | 184 | |
| Ordinary people : Carver, Ford, and blue-collar realism | 199 | |
| Textures of memory | 209 | |
| Late Bellow : thinking about the dead | 209 | |
| Saints and sinners : William Kennedy's Albany cycle | 214 | |
| Damaged literacy : the decay of reading | 223 | |
| Finding the right words (Irving Howe) | 234 | |
| The social uses of fiction (Martha Nussbaum) | 243 | |
| The limits of historicism : literary theory and historical understanding | 248 |
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Ross Kirk
reviewed A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World on March 30, 2013 A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
A little redundant at times (how many times do we need to read the number of pages the FBI had on Baldwin?). Although there isn't much on his early life, his personal life really comes through in the discussion of his work, in this way the reader really does get a good feeling for the kind of person Baldwin was in the different phases of his life and his contribution to American literature and culture. It ends in a heartbreakingly intimate way that I'm not sure is consistent with the work as whole but it definitely conveys Campbell's feelings about the author and relates how thoroughly Baldwin's unique fire, passion, humanity and warmth still touches his readers and admirers.
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