Essays discuss H.G. Wells, Italo Calvino, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Flannery O'Connor, ghost stories, and life in Japan and Iceland
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Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of the novels Seaward (1993), Hence (1989), and Equal Distance (1985), and of three volumes of poetry -- The Mail from Anywhere (1990), Cats of the Temple (1986), and Hundreds of Fireflies (1982) -- and is the editor of The Norton Book of Ghost Stories (1993). He is the recipient of many awards for his writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, and their two daughters, Emily and Hilary.
Brad Leithauser teaches at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
eithauser's criticism and 'high reportage' has a vivid edge over that of most of his contemporaries. We hear in it the voice of a writer and poet, speaking not only to a wider public with authority but also to his peers in poetry and fiction. The result is of compelling intelligence and range (science and the arts, censorship and the spirit of place). Not to be missed."<br><br>-- George Steiner<br><br>In his first collection of essays and criticism, the celebrated poet and novelist focuses on subjects exceptionally close to his heart. He considers the ghost story as a literary form and through the prism of two of its prominent practitioners -- Henry James and M. R. James. He writes about the spiritual world of Flannery O'Connor, the alternate universe of Salman Rushdie's Satanic verses, the mind of H. G. Wells. He brilliantly makes clear for the layperson the possibilities of computer chess and the future of thinking machines, and acquaints us with the biographies of three mathematica
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