Robert Grudin, Author . Yale Univ. $26 (216p) ISBN 978-0-300-16140-3
The faddish exaltation of design as an all-encompassing force reaches an apogee in this scattershot manifesto. English prof Grudin (Book
) discusses a hodgepodge of phenomena as exemplars of good or bad design, including St. Peter's Basilica,...
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Robert Grudin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $20.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-89919-940-5
Grudin stresses that creativity is heightened when tasks become emotional challenges. He views creativity as an offering to society--social in nature--rather than a solitary pursuit. The creative act demands openness, self-scrutiny and love of form...
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Robert Grudin, Author Penguin Books $11.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-023113-7
A witty burlesque of bookishness that focuses on an English professor's disappearance. (Dec.)
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Robert Grudin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-395-77187-7
In a wonderfully stimulating inquiry, Grudin investigates dialogue at all levels-between friends and lovers, in the classroom, the give-and-take of political discourse, in the artist's feedback loop with his or her evolving creative product....
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Robert Grudin, Author, David Rosenthal, Editor Random House (NY) $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-41185-7
In this avant-garde comedy, first novelist Grudin ( Time and the Art of Living ) takes up a plot about a nasty tempest in a college English department, but his real preoccupation is with language and the reflexive nature of literary forms; his novel
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