Spring 2015

The State of Letters—Following successful issues in 2001 and 2012 devoted to reading and the life of the book, we offer another spirited examination of the past, present, and future of the printed word: A. Banerjee (on Eliot as editor), Robert Buffington (on Tate and the SR), Sven Birkerts (on little magazines), Fred Chappell (on Anchor paperbacks), Casey Clabough (on the Ron Rash industry), Scott Donaldson (on writing the Cheever biography), John Gatta (on the American novel), Mel Livatino (on Churchill’s biography), Stephen Miller (on the Partisan Review), Harry Lee Poe (on American detective fiction), Barbara Basbanes Richter (on danger in children’s literature), together with John Maxwell Hamilton, David Heddendorf, Robert Lacy, Sam Pickering, and James L. W. West iii