Harold Brodkey is usually the chronicler of a personal and serious form of modern memory. His efforts are direct and, save for one or two exceptions, unambiguous: his fiction details the lives and losses of the American generations who survived World...

The ambition endemic in American writers cripples talent as much as nurtures it. Harold Brodkey was a gifted writer who became virtually a caricature of the American rites of celebrity. Although what he wrote was consistently autobiographical, his work did not suffer from...

STORIES IN AN ALMOST CLASSICAL MODE By Harold Brodkey Knopf. 596 pp. $24.95 WHATEVER ELSE might be said about the author of this in every way extraordinary book, it ought to be gratefully, humbly acknowledged that Harold Brodkey has courage. Great...

In the following interview, Brodkey discusses his time at Harvard, his creative process, and his attitude toward fame.

In the following review, Rothstein places Stories in an Almost Classical Mode within the context of Brodsky's oeuvre, deeming it an “unsettling book, far different from Brodkey's first collection.”

In the following positive review, Adams provides a stylistic examination of Brodkey's The Runaway Soul.