William H. Pritchard

So You Think You Can Write?

William H. Pritchard

Do we really need yet another book filled with tips, instructions, and warnings against this or that? Only if the take on the subject is as uncommon as the one offered by Good Prose.

Dot-dot-dot-dash

William H. Pritchard

The First Four Notes asserts that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony “might not be the greatest piece of music ever written...but it must be the greatest ‘great piece’ ever written.”

From Every Angle

William H. Pritchard

In his fine new study of Portrait of a Lady, Michael Gorra says that it was with this “American masterpiece” that Henry James became truly Jamesian.

Nowhere Man

William H. Pritchard

'The Lower River' is one of Paul Theroux’s darker explorations of a world as 'other.' But is it a cautionary tale, a novel of pure adventure, or something else?

Deconstructed

William H. Pritchard

Jeffrey Eugenides's 'The Marriage Plot'

All Clogs

William H. Pritchard

Nicholson Baker’s Splendid Digressions

Poetryland

William H. Pritchard

Beautiful & Pointless, by the poet David Orr, is a short, lively guidebook that proposes to conduct the “general reader” about the landscape of contemporary poetry—what Orr refers to more than once as Poetryland. 

Seize This Book

William H. Pritchard

More than once in this collection of vigorous letters, Bellow apologizes for his unsatisfactory epistolary habits: “I’ve never enjoyed writing letters,” he tells Ralph Ellison. “It’s part of some disagreeable reticence in me—laziness; worse; something very nasty.”

A World of False Choices

William H. Pritchard

A review of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom

Getting Old

William H. Pritchard

Drawing Detroit

William H. Pritchard

He’s Got Rhythm

William H. Pritchard

That this critic, at age ninety, should have produced such an extraordinarily packed, balanced, and wise book gives us heartening evidence of his staying power as well as E. M. Forster’s.

Toil & Trouble

William H. Pritchard

Expert Counsel

William H. Pritchard

An American Voice

William H. Pritchard

Collected Poems, 1943-2004

William H. Pritchard

One Matchless Time by Jay Parini

William H. Pritchard

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