Memoir of a Gambler, by Jack Richardson by Jane Larkin Crain When Jack Richardson's first play, The Prodigal, was produced in 1960, he was hailed as one of the most promising…
Loose Change, by Sara Davidson by Jane Larkin Crain Sara Davidson was graduated from the University of California in 1964, at about the time beatniks were becoming hippies and…
The Children of the Counterculture, by John Rothchild and Susan Wolf by Jane Larkin Crain The Adolescents who made up the "youth revolution" of the 1960's-the flower children, hippies, communards, self-styled radicals, and other assorted…
Feminist Fiction by Jane Larkin Crain Unlike older forms of "woman's fiction," written not only by and about but primarily for women, a new kind of…
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, by Grace Paley by Jane Larkin Crain The first collection of Grace Paley's short stories, The Little Disturbances of Man, appeared in 1959, and was greeted with…
Burr, by Gore Vidal by Jane Larkin Crain Gore Vidal once described himself as a "border lord" in the "dying kingdom of literature." While the kingdom may in…
Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir, by Stewart Alsop by Jane Larkin Crain Stewart Alsop is the author of a number of books on contemporary American politics and has been a columnist for…
TV Verite by Jane Larkin Crain Since the release of "Titicut Follies" in 1967, the work of the documentary filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman, has been receiving consistent,…
The New Journalism, by Tom Wolfe by Jane Larkin Crain During the early 1960's, working more or less independently, journalists like Gay Talese, Jimmy Breslin, and Tom Wolfe, and novelists-turned-journalists…
Looking Back, by Joyce Maynard by Jane Larkin Crain At nineteen, Joyce Maynard has achieved a not wholly undeserved publicity.