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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Eder, Richard. “Going, Going, Gone.” New York Times Book Review 107, no. 1 (17 February 2002): 18-19.

Eder describes Fair Warning as “a cross between a comedy of manners and a philosophic comedy,” but notes that the novel's “success is uneven.”

Gehr, Richard. “The Wizard of Loneliness.” Village Voice 41, no. 49 (3 December 1996): 57.

Gehr argues that the stories in Butler's Tabloid Dreams resonate as a whole even though they do not stand well on their own.

Review of Fair Warning, by Robert Olen Butler. Publishers Weekly 248, no. 43 (22 October 2001): 41.

The critic offers a generally positive assessment of Fair Warning.

Additional coverage of Butler's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography and Resources, Vol....

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Madison Smartt Bell (review date 23 February 1992)
   2. Richard Eder (review date 29 March 1992)
   3. Kathleen Gilgore (review date 4 September 1992)
   4. Cynthia McCown (review date 11 December 1993)
   5. Josephine Hart (review date 16 January 1994)
   6. Robert Olen Butler and Missouri Review (interview date February 1994)
   7. Julia Glass (review date 6 February 1994)
   8. Robert Olen Butler and Michael Sartisky (interview date spring 1994)
   9. Mark Ford (review date 12 May 1994)
   10. Helen Heritage August (review date August 1994)
   11. Lorrie Smith (essay date spring 1995)
   12. Jonathan Penner (review date 10 November 1996)
   13. Barbara C. Ewell (review date 17 May 1997)
   14. Susan Balée (review date summer 1997)
   15. Peter Stanford (review date 17 August 1997)
   16. Susie Linfield (review date 25 January 1998)
   17. Thomas Bonner (review date 20 June 1998)
   18. Ron Charles (review date 6 January 2000)
   19. Kit Reed (review date 16 January 2000)
   20. Jonathan Levi (review date 23 January 2000)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

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