National Review, November 20th, 1987
The Fred Chappell Reader
by Fred Chappell (St. Martin's, 490 pp., $22.95)
HOW MANY Fred Chappell readers would read The Fred Chappell Reader, if any Fred Chappell readers needed to read a Fred Chappell reader?
Well--we are going to find out. Now that I am a Fred Chappell reader myself, I think that this author demonstrates a certain quality which today, amidst a debasing blare of blurbs and advertisements, can only be mentioned with a particular kind of embarrassment. This quality is called "talent' or "creativity.' Mr. Chappell has a gift, a calling, a vocation. He is a serious man with ...
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