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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Begley, Adam. “A Few Well-Chosen Words.” New York Times (28 October 1990): 40-3, 82-5.

Discusses Salter's life and work.

Gurney, A. R. “Those Going Up and Those Coming Down.” New York Times Book Review (21 February 1988): 9.

Outlines the unifying concept of the stories in Dusk.

Kakutani, Michiko. “Epiphanic Moments.” New York Times (13 February 1988): 16.

Surveys the defining characteristics of the stories in Dusk.

Koenig, Rhoda. “Different Strokes.” New York 21, no. 4 (25 January 1988): 63.

Contends that Salter, in Dusk, “writes with a delicate, surgical touch, in a style that is no less powerful for being sly and cool.”

Salter, James. “Some for Glory, Some for Praise.” In Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction, edited by Will Blythe, pp. 34-40. Boston: Little, Brown and...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Richard Eder (review date 17 February 1988)
   2. Ned Rorem (review date 6 March 1988)
   3. Peter Wild (review date winter 1989)
   4. Freddie Baveystock (review date 25 May 1990)
   5. Richard Burgin (review date 1990)
   6. James Salter and Edward Hirsch (interview date summer 1993)
   7. William Dowie (essay date 1998)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright