Blake Bailey Online – Other Writing

Joseph Heller, illustration by Joe Ciardiello.

““The Love Fractures You” (excerpt from Philip Roth: The Biography) in Esquire
“The Decorous Surfaces and Fraught Subtexts of Alice Adams’s Life and Work” in The New York Times
“Lost and Found” in The New York Times
“The Citizen Kane of Literature” in The New Republic
“Darkness Invisible” in Bookforum
“Five Best Novels about Bad Parents” in The Wall Street Journal
“Art Over Life” in The New York Times
“Rather Hopeless” at Slate.com
“Please God, Make Him a Great Man” in The Wall Street Journal
“The Descendants” in The New York Times
“Weekend in the Sun” in Vanity Fair
“Styron Visible” in The New York Times
“5 Writing Tips” in Publishers Weekly
“Stage Manager” in The New York Times
“The Enigma of Joseph Heller” in The New York Times
“Great Scott! The Guy Could Write” in The Wall Street Journal
“My Year of Hurricanes” at Slate.com