Diminishing fictions -- The novel in the academy -- Criticism in extremis -- Reading Denis Donoghue -- Derrida's dullards, Woolf's womyn -- On F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The music of Gatsby -- Behind the images : Fitzgerald and Cheever -- On Ernest Hemingway -- Hemingway's prelude to Paris -- Hemingway : the Meyers version -- Hemingway : the Lynn version -- Hemingway's Garden of Eden -- On Thomas Wolfe -- No angel -- A naked Wolfe -- Glenway Wescott 1901-1987 -- Salinger's arrested development -- Capote's children -- All about Norman -- Talking heads : the novels of Saul Bellow -- John Hawkes's fan club -- Guy Davenport : fiction à la Fourier -- The human dimension : E.L. Doctorow -- Don DeLilo's America -- Flesh and faith : John Updike -- Tom Wolfe's The bonfire of the vanities -- True confessions -- All in the family -- The literary brat pack.
