'Books of The Times Long in the Making, a Long Book About One Mind'. ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (November 11, 1991).^ a b 'A genius for publicity by Bruce Bawer - The New Criterion'.'Harold Brodkey, 65, New Yorker Writer And Novelist, Dies of Illness He Wrote About'. The World is the Home of Love and Death (1997, ISBN0-8050-5999-7).Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (1988, ISBN1-1).Women and Angels (1985, ISBN0-8276-0250-2) (3 stories, all later included in his 1988 collection).

Sea Battles is filled with whoppers: misstatements, overstatements, nonstatements and statements that are silly, false or incomprehensible.' Bibliography Short-story collections 'When is bad, he is very, very bad, and he is very, very bad quite often. 'If, for some reason, you consider yourself a New York intellectual, Sea Battles on Dry Land might encourage you to secede from the tribe,' wrote Susie Linfield in her review of the book for The New York Observer. 'A car simply is too weak and too complex to be a good symbol, since neither does it plow, and it does not weep either.' Moreoever, 'Brodkey's philosophizing alternates between deconstruction-rivaling nonsense and delusional pieties.' Kirkus Reviews complained that in these 'self-involved, prolix' essays, 'Brodkey seems to be parodying both himself and The New Yorker.' Among the offending examples cited were 'a superannuated New Journalism style piece on the Academy Awards', 'pompously irrelevant analyses of the 1992 presidential campaign' and 'preciously insubstantial vignettes' for The New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town' section. In reviewing Brodkey's essay collection Sea Battles on Dry Land for The New York Times, Wendy Steiner wrote that although the anthology 'does contain some very good sentences,' others were 'unspeakable,' e.g.

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