Literary Criticism

Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings

The Practice of Writing:

The Portable Western Reader:

Studies in Classic American Literature:

The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts

The Modern American Novel: New Revised Edition

Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love

From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature

Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular, Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels

The Way of the Storyteller: A Great Storyteller Shares Her Rich Experience and Joy in Her Art and Tells Eleven of Her Best-Loved Stories

Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground