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The Brodkey Question

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Harold Brodkey has been touted as a literary genius on the basis of a perennially unfinished novel and a handful of difficult-to-read New Yorker stories about his own traumatic childhood. Add to this the image of a self-centered self-promoter, and a figur



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Carol Iannone reviewed Wendy Wasserstein’s Elements of Style in the September 2006 COMMENTARY.