American Lit Crit
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.

Minor Feelings

South to America

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition

When We Were the Kennedys

Why I Write

Forged

Dylan Goes Electric!

Didion and Babitz

High Tide in Tucson

Short Stories by Jesus

Playing in the Dark

Holy the Firm

Why Read Moby-dick?

The Heroine's Bookshelf

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

How to Read a Poem

The Western Canon

On Being Blue

Updike

Borges on Writing

One Man's Meat

Mile Marker Zero

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

Philip Roth

Notes on Blood Meridian

Exile's Return

Tony Hillerman's Landscape

Looking for the Good War

How to Read the Constitution--and Why

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor

An Enemy of the People

The Annotated Big Sleep

How to Write Like a Writer

On Cussing

Hell, I Love Everybody: the Essential James Tate

The Saddest Words

Literary Brooklyn

Jack's Book

Like

The Liberal Imagination

A Little Book on Form

On Late Style

Raymond Chandler

Mother Earth Spirituality

Republic of Detours

Too Good to Be Altogether Lost

Two Cheers for Democracy

Native American Fiction

Manly Health and Training

Understanding David Foster Wallace

In Rough Country

On Reading the Grapes of Wrath

Wallace Stevens

American Lit 101

Language As Liberation

On Native Grounds

People Before Highways

The William H. Gass Reader

American Gothic Fiction

A Trail of Memories