as Victim Morris Dickstein, in Sewanee Review (July-Sept. 1981), University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. 37375.
Writer's block, book reviews, and negotiations with publishers-these matters have long concerned novelists. But, until recently, serious American authors, following the lead of Henry James and T. S. Eliot, kept them separate from their work. Now, however, writers like William Styron, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, and John Irving are relying on such details from their own lives for the...