There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.