Contents:
On reading black authors --
The anti-realists --
The tropics of Miller --
Sexus, Nexus, and Plexus --
Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell --
The permanence of Durrell --
Three glimpses of Scott Fitzgerald --
Portraits. Robinson Jeffers ; Sartre's Genet ; Cleanth Brooks' Faulkner ; Everybody's Shakespeare ; Professor Pottle's Boswell --
George Steiner --
Troyat's Tolstoy --
Turnbull's Thomas Wolfe --
From a French Notebook --
From an American Notebook --
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