Further Reading
- Baker, Lisa. "Storytelling and Democracy (in the Radical Sense): A Conversation with John Edgar Wideman." African American Review 34, No. 2 (Summer 2000): 263-72. (Wideman discusses the role of the African American artist in society.)
- Byerman, Keith E. John Edgar Wideman: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998, 120 p. (Full-length critical study of Wideman's short fiction.)
- Finney, Ron. "To Repair the Two Relations." Los Angeles Times Book Review (23 December 1984): 6. (Outlines the narrative of Brothers and Keepers.)
- Hood, Cara. Review of Fever, by John Edgar Wideman. Voice Literary Supplement 18 (December 1989): 7-8. (Review that considers Fever: Twelve Stories as a collection of stories about storytelling.)
- Julien, Claude. "The Silent Man's Voice in ‘The Statue of Liberty’." Callaloo 22, No. 3 (Summer 1999): 740-49. (Explores the thematic concerns of Wideman's “The Statue of Liberty.”)
- Mbalia, Dorothea Drummond. John Edgar Wideman: Reclaiming the African Personality. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1995, 132 p. (Traces Wideman's literary development.)
- Mullen, Bill. "Looking Back." Partisan Review 61, No. 3 (1994): 528-31. (A laudatory survey of Wideman's works, including Philadelphia Fire, The Stories of John Edgar Wideman, and The Homewood Books.)
- Pinckney, Darryl. "Aristocrats." New York Review of Books 42, No. 8 (11 May 1995): 27-34. (Offers mixed commentary on Fatheralong. Pinckney also discusses two works by other authors who treat racial and familial issues.)
- Pinckney, Darryl. "Cos I'm a So-o-oul Man: The Back-Country Blues of John Edgar Wideman." Times Literary Supplement 4612 (August 23, 1991): 19-20. (A mixed assessment of Philadelphia Fire and Fever.)
- Poole, Francis. Review of Fever, by John Edgar Wideman. Library Journal 114, No. 18 (1 November 1989): 113. (Favorable review of Fever: Twelve Stories.)
- Review of Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society, by John Edgar Wideman. Harvard Educational Review 65, No. 4 (1995): 683-84. (Favorable review in which the critic declares that Wideman "presents a timely, critical, and cogent discussion on the paradigm of race and its injurious impact on Black people.")
- Smith, Shawn Michael. "Like Steam from a City Grate." The Christian Science Monitor 82, No. 229 (October 23, 1990): 15. (A review in which Smith provides a laudatory assessment of Philadelphia Fire.)
- TuSmith, Bonnie, ed. Conversations with John Edgar Wideman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, 224 p. (Collection of interviews with Wideman.)
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