The complete online text of The Man of Letters as a Man of Business by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

MAN OF LETTERS Jacques Derrida's essays on "paper" are an odd coda to an odd obit PAPER MACHINE BY JACQUES DERRIDA, TRANSLATED BY RACHEL BOWLBY STANFORD, CA: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 203 PAGES. $20. A year ago in October, an obituary appeared on the...

CHARLES BUKOWSKI Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life By Howard Sounes Grove. 309 pp. $26 Reviewed by Bruce Cook A funny thing happened to me on my way to reviewing this book. It was stolen. I remember reaching into the...