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Max Apple.
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In the following review of The Oranging of America, Cook denigrates Apple's prose.
If fiction and poetry, those vestiges of the mythic mind, are endangered species, it is probably because they ...
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In the following review of The Oranging of America, Betsky discusses Apple's use of humor.
Max Apple writes fiction the way Claes Oldenburg makes sculptures. His short stories in The Oranging o...
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In the following essay, Vannatta considers the satirical elements of The Oranging of America.
Satires on the banality of the American dream are by this time such literary commonplaces that they threat...
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In the following excerpt, Wilde explores Apple's utilization of irony and symbolism in creating postmodern fiction.
Max Apple at his best, as in the title story of The Oranging of America and t...
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In the below essay, Glausser examines Apple's use of literary allusions in the short story “Vegetable Love.”
Max Apple's fiction doesn't seem at all dense or recondi...
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In the following interview with McCaffery and Gregory, conducted March 17, 1983, Apple discusses his narrative style, thematic concerns, and creative processes.
Born and raised in the center of Americ...
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In the following review of Free Agents, LeClair explores Apple's self-obsessed narrative manner.
Much of Max Apple's new collection could have been published in Me Magazine. There'...
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In the following interview with Vorda, conducted February 19, 1987, Apple discusses contemporary fiction and his own writing.
Max Apple was born October 22, 1941, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he s...
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In the following essay, Wilde traces Apple's stylistic development.
The conventional tags that generally fill out the titles of short-story collections—“five stories,” ...
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In the following essay, Klinkowitz analyzes Apple's depiction of American cultural history and usage of cultural icons, and compares Apple's writing to that of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard ...
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In the following essay, Bellamy surveys the stories in The Oranging of America.
The spirit that made America what it is today is still operative, according to Max Apple in his remarkable debut, The Or...
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Critical Review by Carole Cook
