Ted Solotaroff, Author, Alfred Kazin, Author . HarperCollins $29.95 (592p) ISBN 978-0-06-621343-9
Intended as "a resource, rather than as a monument" this posthumous anthology traces a biographical arc through the work of one of America's finest literary critics, interspersing selections from almost all of his major critical works (On
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Alfred Kazin, Author Harvard University Press $19.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-674-96237-8
Reflecting with graceful erudition on literature, litterateurs and his own work, noted critic Kazin (On Native Grounds) offers a distilled summa of his engagements with the word. Based on lectures delivered at Harvard, the book opens with a vigorous
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Alfred Kazin, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-394-54968-2
Secular treatments of God can be the more interesting if only because of their heavy doses of doubt. Writing with the full force of his crisp and lucid style, Kazin (On Native Grounds) is chiefly concerned with demonstrating how each of the 12 major
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Alfred Kazin, Author Knopf Publishing Group $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-394-57142-3
Splicing a text by distinguished critic Kazin with scores of paintings, photographs and literary excerpts might seem the ideal way to illuminate American writers' changing relationship with nature and landscape. This eye-catching book is ingeniously
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Alfred Kazin, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-019037-8
These selections from the diaries of noted author (A Walker in the City) and critic Kazin were written from 1938 to 1995; they provide his thoughts on literary and political events that occurred over four decades. Kazin grew up in Brooklyn, the son...
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Selected and edited by Richard M. Cook. Yale Univ., $45 (632p) ISBN 978-0-300-14203-7
This generous selection from Alfred Kazin's (1915–1998) voluminous journals (7,000 pages in all), covering some 65 years, showcases two aspects of this cranky intellectual's mind and critical art. First, there is the unqualified gift for literary...
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