Incoming Resources
- Canon and creativity, modern writing and the authority of scripture, Robert Alter
- Las cosas y el olvido, Mario Monteforte Toledo
- Twentieth century authors, a biographical dictionary of modern literature. First supplement, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz, assistant editor, Vineta Colby
- Interpretations of life: a survey of contemporary literature;, the lives and opinions of some major authors of our time,, by Will and Ariel Durant
- The man behind the book, literary profiles, Louis Auchincloss
- The book to come, Maurice Blanchot ; translated by Charlotte Mandell
- Writing and being, Nadine Gordimer
- Twentieth-century literary criticism
- The din in the head, essays, Cynthia Ozick
- Nobel writers on writing, edited by Ottar G. Draugsvold
- The parameters of postmodernism, Nicholas Zurbrugg
- Twentieth century authors, a biographical dictionary of modern literature, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft
- Wittgenstein's ladder, poetic language and the strangeness of the ordinary, Marjorie Perloff
- The new guide to modern world literature, Martin Seymour-Smith
- Once again to Zelda, the stories behind literature's most intriguing dedications, Marlene Wagman-Geller
- Contemporary literary criticism
- Poets, prophets, and revolutionaries, the literary avant-garde from Rimbaud through postmodernism, Charles Russell
- Encounter, Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher
- Interviews with contemporary writers, second series, 1972-1982, edited by L.S. Dembo
- Writing at risk, interviews in Paris with uncommon writers, by Jason Weiss
- Writers & company, Eleanor Wachtel
- The Oxford guide to contemporary writing, edited by John Sturrock
- The metamorphoses of metaphor, essays in poetry and fiction, Alfred Corn
- Words still count with me, a chronicle of literary conversations, Herbert Mitgang
- Listening to the page, adventures in reading and writing, Alan Cheuse
- People, books & book people, David W. McCullough