Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

Charles Baxter

256 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"Lately I've been possessed of a singularly unhappy idea: The greatest influence on American fiction for the last twenty years may have been Richard Nixon." What happens to American fiction in a time when villains are deprived of their villainy; w...

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informative 100%
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inspiring 50%
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