Brodkey wrote “The State of Grace” in his early twenties, a sweeping act of pure genius that took him only forty-five minutes ...

“One doesn’t think about Harold Brodkey anymore,” says Richard Ford, who reads Harold Brodkey’s 1954 story “The State of Grace” on this month’s Fiction Podcast, but “there was a ...

For almost 30 years the literary world has tittered and buzzed over rumors of Harold Brodkey's first novel. So now we have it, an encyclopedia of literary pretensions.

Harold Brodkey is the biggest question mark in American literature today. He is a full-fledged legend in the upper reaches of American print society. But you may never have heard of Brodkey, and ...

"One wants glimpses of the real," wrote Harold Brodkey in his last journal entry before his death. "One almost never gets the real thing," lamented Saul Bellow in his last novel, Ravelstein. Embodied ...

And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: ...