Further Reading
- Amiel, Barbara, "To Vonnegut and Heller, Add John Irving," Maclean's 91, no. 11 (29 May 1978): 66. (Amiel asserts that The World according to Garp places Irving among such authors as Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller who represent “the best school of American writing” of the twentieth century.)
- Irving, John, and William McPherson, "The World according to John Irving," Washington Post Book World (30 April 1978): E1, E5. (Irving discusses the relationship between his own life and that of his fictional character, T. S. Garp.)
- Rickard, John, "Wrestling with the Text: The World according to John Irving," Meanjin 56, nos. 3-4 (1997): 714-22. (Rickard examines Irving's recurring use of wrestling as a metaphor in The World according to Garp and his memoir The Imaginary Girlfriend.)
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