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Wright, Charles (Vol. 146) - Copyright Page

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Volume 146

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African Literature Today, n. 10, 1979; n. 11, 1980. Heinemann Educational Books 1979, 1980. Reproduced by permission of James Currey Ltd. Publishers.—America, v. 162, May 12, 1990; v. 165, October 12, 1991; v. 166, April 25, 1992; v. 177, September 13, 1997. Copyright © 1990, 1991, 1992, 1997. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of America Press, Inc., 106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019.—The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, v. 53, 1993 for “Ann Beattie: Emotional Loss and Strategies of Reparation” by Leo Schneiderman. Copyright © 1993 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Antioch Review, v. 40, Spring, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by the Antioch Review Inc. Reproduced by permission of the Editors.—Australian Journal of French Studies, v. XXVIII, May-August, 1991 for “Towards a Camusian Reading of ‘Le Devoir de Violence,’” by J. A. Nicholls. Copyright © 1991 by Australian Journal of French Studies. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Belle Lettres, v. 7, Winter, 1991-92; v. 10, Spring, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Book World--The Washington Post, February 1, 1987 for “Two Women in Search of the American Dream” by Elizabeth Ward; June 27, 1982 in a review of The Southern Cross by Joel Conarroe; June 21, 1998 for “All Her Lonely People” by Andy Solomon; July 5, 1998 for “Sighs of a Singleton” by Tamsin Todd; January 10, 1999 in a review of ‘Appalachia’ by William Logan; v. 28, Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Book World--The Washington Post, May 20, 1984. Copyright © 1984, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission.—The Boston Globe, December 3, 1995. Copyright © Globe Newspaper Company 1995. Reproduced by permission.—British Medical Journal, v. 312, May 4, 1996. Copyright British Medical Association 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Callaloo, v. 12, Winter, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Chicago Tribune Books, January 11, 1987 for “Boundless Love: Sometimes Mother Is Another Word for Smother,” by Sven Birkerts; v. 153, March 7, 2000 for “Pride and Predictability” by Carolyn Alessio.; November 26, 2000 for “Short Novels That Vary in Their Breadth and Depth of Focus” by Allen Cheuse. Copyright © 1987 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.— Commonweal, v. CXVII, May 18, 1990. Copyright © 1990 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Comparative Literature Studies, v. 24, 1987. Copyright 1987 by The Pennsylvania State University. Reproduced by permission of The Pennsylvania State University Press.—Contemporary Literature, v. XXXI, Winter, 1990; v. XL, 1999. Copyright © 1990, 1999 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—The Christian Science Monitor, v. 63, September 23, 1971 for “Bleak Generations: Down the Bayou” by Marilyn Gardner; v. 86, August 1, 1994; March 9, 2000. Copyright 1971, 1994, 2000 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor.—The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 18, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by The Chronicle of Higher Education. This article may not be published, reposted, or redistributed without express permission from The Chronicle.—Critique, v. 28, Summer, 1987; v. 39, Summer, 1998. Copyright 1987, 1998 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced by permission.—Detroit Free Press, February 27, 2000. Copyright 2000 Knight Ridder New Media. Reproduced by permission.—The Georgia Review, Vol. XXXVI, Spring, 1982; Vol. XXXVIII, Summer, 1984; v. LI, Summer, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Harper’s Bazaar, n. 3440, July, 1998. Copyright 1998 Hearst Corporation. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—The Hudson Review,v. XL, Summer, 1987; v. XLIV, Summer, 1991; v. XLV, Autumn, 1992; v. 49, Spring, 1996; v. XLIX, Spring, 1996. Copyright © 1987, 1991, 1992, 1996 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Commonwealth Literature, v. XXIII, 1988. Reproduced with the kind permission of Bowker-Saur.—The Kansas City Star, June 10, 1999. Copyright 1999 The Kansas City Star Co. Reproduced by permission.—The Kenyon Review, v. XX, Summer-Fall, 1998 for “Survivalist Selves” by David Wojahn. Reproduced by permission of the author.—London Observer, November 21, 1999. Reproduced by permission of The Observer Limited, London.—London Review of Books, September 17, 1987 for “Adele Goes West” by Mark Lambert; July 23, 1992 for “Beautiful People” by Jonathan Coe. Appears here by permission of the London Review of Books and the respective authors.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 19, 1984; February 9, 1992; July 31, 1994; October 6, 1996; September 27, 1998; June 6, 1999; November 27, 2000. Copyright, 1984, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.— Los Angeles Times, February 22, 2000; March 6, 2000; November 26, 2000;. Copyright, 2000 Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—Maclean’s, v. 105, March 16, 1992 for “Life Without Father” by Judith Timson; v. 109, November 25, 1996 for “Family Ties, Family Ties: A Wise Child Is Surrounded by Immature Adults” by Judith Timson. Copyright © 1992, 1996 by Rogers Media, Publishing Ltd. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Miami Herald, February 27, 2000. Copyright 2000 Knight Ridder New Media. Reproduced by permission of the Copyright Clearance Center.—Michigan Quarterly Review, v. 32, Summer, 1993 for an interview with Ann Beattie and James Plath. Reproduced by permission the authors.—MLN, v. 107, December, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 44, Fall, 1998. Copyright © for the Purdue Research Foundation by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The Miami Herald, November 1, 2000. Copyright © 2000, The Miami Herald. Reproduced by permission of the Copyright Clearance Center.—The Nation, New York, April 7, 1984; April 13, 1992. Copyright © 1984, 1992 The Nation Magazine/ The Nation Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. 50, August 3, 1998; v. 51, July 12, 1999. Copyright National Review, Inc., 1998. Copyright © 1998, 1999 by National Review, Inc, 215 Lexington Avenue. New York, NY 10016. Reproduced by permission.—New Criterion, v. 15, June, 1997 for “Hardscrabble Country” by William Logan. Copyright 1997 Foundation for Cultural Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The New England Review, v. XII, Spring, 1990 for “Charles Wright and the Landscape of the Lyric” by Nance Van Winckel. Copyright © 1990 by Middlebury College. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The New Leader, August 20, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by The American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman & Society, v. 6, September 10, 1993. Copyright © 1993 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman, v. 128, July 26, 1999; v. 128, November 29, 1999; v. 129, June 9, 2000 . Copyright © 1999, 2000 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New York, v. 32, April 26, 1999. Copyright © 1999 PRIMEDIA Magazine Corporation. All rights reserved. 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v. 6, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by The University Press of Kentucky. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.—Philadelphia Inquirer, March 12, 2000. Copyright 2000 Knight Ridder New Media. Reproduced by permission.—Ploughshares, v. 21, Fall, 1995 for “About Ann Beattie” by Don Lee. Copyright Ploughshares 1995. Reproduced by permission of Don Lee.—PMLA, v. 107, October, 1992. PMLA: Copyright © 1992 by the Modern Language Association of America. Reproduced by permission of the Modern Language Association of America.—Poetry, v. CLV, December, 1989 for a review of Zone Journals by Linda Gregerson; v. CXLI, March, 1993 for “A Tenth and Four Fifths” by X. J. Kennedy; v. CLVIII, August, 1991 for “Amid the Groves, Under the Shadowy Hills, the Generations Are Prepared” by J. D. McClatchy; v. CLX-LVIII, April, 1996 for “On Restraint” by David Baker; v. CLXXV, October-November, 1999 for “Ars Longa” by J. D. Mc-Clatchy. © 1989, 1993, 1991, 1996, 1999 by the Modern Poetry Association. Reproduced by permission of the Editor of Poetry and the author.—Publishers Weekly, v. 243, November 4, 1996. Copyright 1996 by Cahners Publishing Co. Reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA., by permission.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 19, Spring, 1999. Copyright, 1999, by John O’Brien. Reproduced by permission.—Salmagundi, n. 111, Summer, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Skidmore College. Reproduced by permission.—South Atlantic Review, v. 61, Winter, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Quarterly,

v. 21, Summer, 1983; v. 25, Winter, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—The New Republic, August 7, 1995; v. 214, April 29, 1996; v. 219, September 7, 1998; v. 219, September 14, 1998 . Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998 The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—The Paris Review, v. 31, Winter, 1989. Copyright © 1989 The Paris Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The Southern Review, v. 14, January, 1978 for “‘So Distinct a Shade’: Shirley Ann Grau’s Evidence of Love” by Mary Rohrberger; v. 27, January, 1991 for “Slide-Wheeling Around the Curves” by Calvin Bedient; v. 33, Winter, 1997 “Wanted: More Complexity” by Calvin Bedient; v. 34, Summer, 1998 for “Poetic Standard Time: The Zones of Charles Wright,” by Christopher R. Miller; v. 35, Summer, 1999 for “Old Masters” by Kate Daniels; v. 36, Spring, 2000 for an interview with Ted Genoways and Charles Wright. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—The Spectator, London, v. 283, November 27, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—The Village Voice, v. 43, June 30, 1998 for “Keeping Up with Ms. Jones” by Megham Daum. Copyright © V. V. Publishing Corporation. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Wall Street Journal, v. CCXXVI, December 18, 1995; v. CCXXXV, February 25, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The Washington Post, May 18, 1998. Copyright © 1998, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by per

mission.—The Women’s Review of Books,v. III, August, 1986 for “Short and to the Point” by Barbara Rich; v. XI, July, 1994 for “Upwardly Mobile” by Nan Levinson. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Times Literary Supplement, n. 4651, May 22, 1992; n. 4768, August 19, 1994; n. 4883, November 1, 1996; n. 4899, February 21, 1997; n. 5044, December 3, 1999. Copyright © The Times Supplements Limited 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999. Reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Virginia Quarterly Review,v. 62, Summer, 1986. Copyright, 1986, by The Virginia Quarterly Review, The University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission.—West Coast Review of Books, v. 3, May, 1977. Reproduced by permission of Rapport.—World and I, v. 14, October, 1999. Copyright 1999 News World Communications. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 57,Winter, 1983; v. 70, Autumn, 1996; v. 73, Winter, 1999. Copyright 1983, 1996, 1999 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced by permission.—Yale French Studies, v. 53, 1976. Copyright © Yale French Studies 1976. Reproduced by permission of publisher.—The Yale Review, v. 83, October, 1995. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN CLC, VOLUME 146, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Miller, Christopher L. From Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French. University of Chicago Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by The University of Chicago Press. Reproduced by permission.—Olesky, Elzbieta. From “The Keepers of the House: Scarlett O’Hara and Abigail Howland,” in Louisiana Women Writers: New Essays and a Comprehensive Bibliography. Edited by Dorothy H. Brown and Barbara C. Ewell. Louisiana State University Press, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Olney, James. From Tell Me Africa: An Approach to African Literature. Princeton University Press, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Richardson, Thomas J. From “Roadwalker in the Magic Kingdom: Shirley Ann Grau,” in Literary New Orleans in the Modern World. Edited by Richard S. Kennedy. Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Vendler, Helen. From The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics. Harvard University Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wagner-Martin, Linda. From “Shirley Ann Grau’s Wise Fictions,” in Southern Women Writers: The New Generation. Edited by Tonette Bond Inge. University of Alabama Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Barker, Pat, photograph by David J. Hutchinson. © David J. Hutchinson. Reproduced by permission of Pat Barker.— Beattie, Anne, photograph by Jerry Bauer. Copyright © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Fielding, Helen, photograph by George DeSota. Newsmakers by Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.—Grau, Shirley Ann, photograph. AP/ Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Simpson, Mona, photograph. Copyright © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Wright, Charles, photograph by Nancy Crampton. Reproduced by permission of Charles Wright.

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