Why are we dead anyhow?
A brief look at James Purdy’s career. It is customary to speak of an artist having his fingers on the pulse of a nation’s culture. Purdy, on the contrary, repeatedly…
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Don Adams is an associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. He has written critical pieces on James Purdy, Robert Firbank and James Merrill, among others, and edited an anthology of American literature and culture for Vietnamese students of English, and has twice served as a Fulbright scholar.