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BOOKS

The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James, Princeton University Press, 2001. [book description] [table of contents] The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing.-- Harvard University Press, 2009 The Cambridge Introduction to Modern American Fiction, 1900-1940--in progress

SELECTED ARTICLES

"Understanding Iowa: Flannery O'Connor B.A., M.F.A."
American Literary History, Summer 2007

"Learning from Little Tree: The Political Education of the Counterculture"
Yale Journal of Criticism, Fall 2005

"The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction"
Critical Inquiry, Fall 2005

"Social Geometries: Taking Place in Henry James"
Representations, 68, Autumn 1999, 59-83.

"Making 'Literature' of It: Hammett and High Culture"
American Literary History, 9.4, Winter 1997, 702-717.

"Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in King Kong"
Critical Inquiry, 22.3, Spring 1996, 415-445.