Leonard Michaels Summary

Born in lower Manhattan on 2 January 1933 to Leon (a barber) and Anna Czeskies Michaels, Polish-Jewish immigrants, and raised in the city during the Depression, Leonard Michaels seems not to have pict... Read more

Critical Essay by Joyce Carol Oates Going Places suffers from being unable to take itself seriously…. The best story in the group, "Going Places," leaves a man named Beckman o... Read more

Critical Essay by David Reid Yeats says that a civilization is a struggle for self-control. "The loss of control over thought comes toward the end; first a sinking in upon the moral being, the... Read more

Critical Essay by Carol Rumens The Men's Club is a provocative title that seems to herald male chauvinism's answer to The Women's Room and novels of that genre; a firing of defen... Read more

Critical Essay by Laurence Lieberman The key events in [Leonard Michaels' first collection of short stories, Going Places]—usually holocausts in the lives of his Leonard Michaels 1933&#... Read more

Critical Essay by Ronald Christ [Leonard Michaels' stories in Going Places] present a weirdly heightened world where simple acts and feelings are translated into nightmarish reality by means o... Read more

Critical Essay by Anthony Decurtis In his two collections of short stories [Going Places and I Would Have Saved Them if I Could], Leonard Michaels depicts the contemporary struggle to shape a sensibi... Read more

Critical Essay by Stephen Goodwin [The] temptation to write a perfect novel is … natural, especially to a writer like Leonard Michaels, who comes to it by way of the short story…. Th... Read more