American Writers

The deepfreezing of James Gould Cozzens WHEN IT WAS published thirty years ago, Majority writer James Gould Cozzens’ Guard of Honor received a few glowing reviews and won for its author a Pulitzer Prize in fiction. But it was not accorded a fraction of the acclaim and publicity lavished on two…

FEW WRITERS WHO concur in Ezra Pound’s opinion that “artists are the antennae of the race” take seriously or literally Ezra’s minor premise that the artist has a concomitant obligation to rebroadcast his received wisdom. For his pains over Radio Rome on Mussolini’s…