Summer 1985 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Summer 1985

Articles

Fred Barnes — The Pac Man Cometh
Jesse Bier — Cobb and Kubrick: Author and Auteur: (Paths of Glory As Novel and Film)
Kathleen Ford Bonnie — The Boarding House
Malcolm Cowley — Peter Blume: Painting the Phoenix
J. A. S. Evans — The Father of Oral History
Harold Fromm — Recycled Lives: Portraits of the Woolfs As Sitting Ducks
Robert A. Gross — The Great Bean Field Hoax: Thoreau and the Agricultural Reformers
William Havard — Poetry and Epic: the Academy and the Forum
FRED HOBSON — The Savage South: An Inquiry Into the Origins, Endurance, and Presumed Demise of An Image
PAUL ROAZEN — Dostoevsky In Exile
Patrick Samway, S.J. — Faulkner, Encore Une Fois
Steven Schwartz — Down Under
David L. Smith — Recordings
Richard Thorman — The Box of Contents

Poetry

James Applewhite — Collards
Kenneth Zamora Damacion — Parable
Jane Ellen Glasser — For the Good Children
Linda Gregg — Me and Aphrodite and the Other and Forget All That
Louis Jenkins — The Northern River
Linda Pastan — Last Will
Robert Schultz — The Moths
Elizabeth Spires — Storyville Portrait
Lee Upton — The Snowflake Motel and The Net
David Wagoner — Sharp-Shin and In the Dream House

Reprint

Reprint, Summer 1985

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Summer 1985