“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” So goes ...

There are various ways to distinguish the modernist writer from the traditionalist. Here is one. The modernist’s editor, whether the writer be novelist or poet, is unlikely to pose that polite ...

Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...