The Washington Post, October 1st, 1989
BRIGHTEN THE CORNER WHERE YOU ARE By Fred Chappell St. Martin's. 212 pp. $15.95 AMERICAN LITERARY careers are made, they say, on the island of Manhattan, where authors, hugging glasses of warm white wine, hawk and hustle for prizes at flashy gatherings. Doubtless, they said the same thing about Manhattan when James Fenimore Cooper-and Dreiser and Scott and Zelda and Tama Janowitz-moved to town. And there is no denying that it helps to dance noisily to the pulse of the bright lights, big city. Jay McInerney, who has published three books, is better known to the general public than Fred Chappell...
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