Sanford Pinsker

Sanford Pinsker is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including book-length studies of Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Joseph Heller, and J. D. Salinger. He also has published more than 800 articles, essays, editorials, and book reviews, frequently contributing to Georgia Review, Sewanee Review, and VQR. He recently retired after 37 years of teaching at Franklin and Marshall College.

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ESSAYS / Summer 2005

The Tortoise and the Hare; Or, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and the Vagaries of Fiction Writing

By Sanford Pinsker

In 1959, a thirty-one-year-old writer named Cynthia Ozick was hard at work, in her determined tortoise-like way, on an ambitious novel that, seven years later, would be published as Trust; and also in 1959, a young, in-your-face writer...

ESSAYS / Fall 2004

Willie Stark and the Long, Thinning Shadow of Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men

By Sanford Pinsker

I would argue that we are still under the mythos of populism, whether it be the relatively mild form promulgated by an aging William Jennings Bryan, who crossed verbal swords in the mid-1920s with Clarence Darrow over teaching Darwin in...

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Singing the Blues All the Way to the Bank

The Tortoise and the Hare; Or, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and the Vagaries of Fiction Writing

Willie Stark and the Long, Thinning Shadow of Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men

Hating America, at Home and Abroad

The New Minstreldom, or Why So Much in Contemporary Black Culture Went Wrong

Final Thoughts, Last Morsels

Huckleberry Finn and the Problem of Freedom

What’s Love, and Candor, Got to Do With It?

American Literature and America, 1925-2000

Lost Causes/Marginal Hopes: the Collected Elegies of Irving Howe

Sanford Pinsker

Biography

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