Commentaries - July 2008

Academic blacklisting, a creature of the McCarthy heyday, was still affecting some of the accused in 1960.

On this arm: the first stanza of Robert Creeley's "The Warning":

The Warning

For love – I would
split open your head and put

Johannes Göransson's blog features a response to Charles Bernstein's review of my new book. He writes:

For the blockbuster special Esquire issue on the 1950s (June 1983), Frank Conroy contributed a piece called "America in a Trance." Here is a passage: