SOURCE: "Why Not Say What Happened? E. L. Doctorow's Lives of the Poets," in Critique, Vol. 34, No. 2, Winter, 1993, pp. 113-25.
In the following essay, Matterson addresses the ideas about writing suggested by the stories in Doctorow's Lives of the Poets.
This is a free excerpt of 42 words. There are 6,223 words (approx.
21 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our E. L. Doctorow: Critical Essay by Stephen Matterson Access Pass.