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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Banks, Russell, and J. J. Wylie. “Reinventing Realism: An Interview with Russell Banks.” Michigan Quarterly Review 39, no. 4 (fall 2000): 737-53.

Banks discusses his poetry, his attitude toward literary realism, and stylistic aspects of his fiction.

Coates, Joseph. “Tragically Redeemed.” Chicago Tribune Books (15 September 1991): section 14, pp. 1, 23.

Coates praises Banks's portrayal of small-town life in The Sweet Hereafter.

Dodd, Susan. “The End of Innocence, The Getting of Wisdom.” Washington Post Book World 25, no. 23 (4 June 1995): 9.

Dodd commends the protagonist of Rule of the Bone as a “perceptive” and “compelling” character.

Lawson, Guy. “Teenage Wasteland.” Maclean's 108, no. 28 (10 July 1995): 42-3.

Lawson compares Rule of the Bone to Richard Ford's Independence Day.

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Howard Frank Mosher (review date 8 September 1991)
   2. Jeff Danziger (review date 24 September 1991)
   3. Donna Rifkind (review date 17 April 1992)
   4. James Finn Cotter (review date 2 May 1992)
   5. Ross Leckie (essay date summer 1994)
   6. Richard Eder (review date 21 May 1995)
   7. Ann Hulbert (review date 29 May 1995)
   8. Penelope Mesic (review date 11 June 1995)
   9. Phil Baker (review date 30 June 1995)
   10. Brian Morton (review date 7 July 1995)
   11. Ed Peaco (review date fall 1995)
   12. Jerry Herron (essay date fall 1996)
   13. Robert Niemi (essay date 1997)
   14. Henry Mayer (review date 8 March 1998)
   15. Russell Banks and Christine Benvenuto (interview date March-April 1998)
   16. Alfred Kazin (review date 9 April 1998)
   17. Lawrence Hill (review date 13 April 1998)
   18. James M. McPherson (review date May 1998)
   19. Joyce Appleby (review date 22 May 1998)
   20. Russell Banks, Robert Faggen, and Barry Munger (interview date summer 1998)
   21. Millicent Bell (review date fall 1998)
   22. Paul Binding (review date 15 September 2000)
   23. Kathleen Snodgrass (review date spring 2001)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright