Works by and about Thomas Berger

This checklist presents the first compilation of works by and about Thomas Berger to appear in print. It is intended to serve as a concise, comprehensive record, including Berger’s works to date and a selective list of secondary writings.

The further classification of materials under primary and secondary divisions is intended to list all items in the most informative manner without the aid of annotations. Part I, Works By Thomas Berger, is a chronological list of Novels, Short Stories, Other Fiction, Articles, Reviews, Interviews, Letters and Personal Statements, Drama, and Translations. Part II, Works About Thomas Berger, is an alphabetical list of Articles and Miscellaneous References, Reviews, and Biographical and Literary Reference Works.

Organizing the literature by and about an important contemporary author into discrete categories is a challenge for the bibliographer. The rubrics adopted to accommodate the Berger material require some explanation. In Part I, "Short Stories" are uncollected works ("Professor Hyde," Playboy). "Other Fiction" consists of story publications taken from or based on sections of novels ("Confession of a Giant," New World Writing). In addition to plays performed, "Drama" includes short works written in dramatic dialogue ("Controversy: The Arthur Bader Show," Esquire). In Part II, "Articles and Miscellaneous References" include dissertations, studies of individual novels, and essays that refer to Berger’s achievement in a larger literary context (Brom Weber, "The Mode of ‘Black Humor’"). "Biographical and Literary Reference Works" is a selective list of references that appear in Author Biographies Master Index, 1st. ed. (1978), and Biography and Genealogy Master Index, 2nd. ed. (1980).

In addition to providing a complete record of Berger’s fiction, the primary sources serve as a guide to his career as reviewer and columnist, notably reviews contributed to The New Leader, Socialist Call, and other magazines during a period of seven years up to the publication of Crazy in Berlin (1958), and the "Films" column in Esquire from April 1972 to June 1973. Taken together, the early reviews and later review articles offer insight into Berger’s own extensive reading, and his engagement with literary, historical, critical, and popular-cultural matters.

The secondary listings serve as a guide to the most informative

treatments of Berger’s work to date. The record of articles and references is as complete as current references allow. In order to conserve space, the list of reviews is limited to those that offer some scholarly perspective or incisive critical observation. Short reviews, such as those in Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Service, and Library Journal, have been omitted, as have the brief reviews and announcements appearing in all other journals, magazines, and newspapers. Doubtless, many of these items contain matter useful to scholars, and they will be included in a future expansion of this checklist.

Some final bibliographical notes: all items are original appearances, unless otherwise noted. All but eleven items on this checklist have been verified with the original copy or a photocopy. The exceptions, identified with an * (asterisk), have been verified with collateral evidence. A number of other items that I could not locate have been omitted. Three publications by Berger that I have not yet obtained are significant to note: "Behold the Man." 1949 U.S.A.: A Book Devoted to the Younger Writers. Ed. Charles I. Glicksberg. New York: New School for Social Research, 1949, pp. 76–81; and "April Is the Cruelest Month." 1950 American Vanguard:

A Collection of Short Stories. Ed. Charles I. Glicksberg. New York:

New School for Social Research, 1950, pp. 207–13. These are two of his earliest publications. Forthcoming is a preface to Medieval Tales. Ed. Francis G. Gentry. Vol. IV of The German Library. New York: Continuum Publishing Co., 1983.

I would like to thank members of the Shields Library staff at UC Davis as well as other libraries, newspapers, and publishers across the country for their services in locating and reproducing copies of Berger materials. My major debt of gratitude is to Professor Weber at UC Davis for his contribution of materials and his assistance with this project, and to Thomas Berger, who supplemented my compilation of items with his own record and sent word of new items as he learned of them.

I. WORKS BY THOMAS BERGER

Novels

Crazy in Berlin. (Reinhart Series.) New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958.

Reinhart in Love. (Reinhart Series.) New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962.

Little Big Man. New York: Dial Press, 1964.

Killing Time. New York: Dial Press, 1967.

Vital Parts. (Reinhart Series.) Richard W. Baron, 1970.

Regiment of Women. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.

Sneaky People. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.

Who Is Teddy Villanova? New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1977.

Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1978.

Neighbors. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1980. Reinhart’s Women. (Reinhart Series.) New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981.

The Feud. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1983.

Short Stories

"Child’s Play." In Which Grain Will Grow, Stories and Sketches of Childhood. Ed. Don M . Wolfe. New York: The New School for Social Research, Cambridge Publishing Co., 1950, pp. 103–06.

*"Marginal Man." New Story, 1, No. 1(1951), 98–109.

"Dependency of Day and Night." Western Review, 16 (1952), 209–18.

"Professor Hyde." Playboy, Dec. 1961, pp. 93, 140, 143–46.

"A Monkey on His Own." Saturday Evening Post, 22 May 1965, pp. 66–67.

"Fatuous Fables." Penthouse, Mar. 1973, pp. 74, 124–25.

"Envy." Oui, April 1975, pp. 40–42, 100, 106–08.

"The Achievement of Dr. Poon." In American Review No. 25. Ed. Theodore Solotaroff. New York: Bantam Books, 1976, pp. 224–43.

"Tales of the Animal Crime Squad." Playboy, Dec. 1980, pp. 200–01, 216, 325–40.

"Granted Wishes, Three Stories." Harper’s, Oct. 1982, pp. 52–59.

Other Fiction

"Confession of a Giant." (Crazy in Berlin.) New World Writing, No. 8 (1955), pp. 245–66.

"Reinhart Goes to Work." (Reinhart in Love.) Dial, No. 2 (1960), pp. 62–79.

"In Lieu of Doctor Goodykuntz." (Reinhart in Love.) Esquire, June 1961, pp. 136–38, 140, 144, 146, 149–50, 152–63.

"Feeling the Squeeze." (Reinhart in Love.) Mademoiselle, Oct. 1961, pp. 98–99.

"How the West Was Lost." (Little Big Man.) Esquire, Mar. 1964, pp. 76–79, 130–31.

"Son and Hair." (Vital Parts.) Esquire, Feb. 1970, pp. 69–71, 120–28. "From Vital Parts." Works in Progress, No. 1 (1970), pp. 221–38.

"The Great Sexual Turnabout." (Regiment of Women.) Couples, April-May 1973, pp. 85–92.

"Who Is Teddy Villanova?" Mainliner (United Airlines Magazine), Aug. 1977, pp. 18, 23–25.

"Arthur Rex." Playboy, Sep. 1978, pp. 102, 105, 110, 232–36.

"From: Neighbors." American Poetry Review, Mar-April 1980, pp. 29–34.

"Reinhart’s Women." Playboy, Aug. 1981, pp. 119–20, 224–42, 246.

Articles

Afterword. The Pathfinder. By James Fenimore Cooper. New York: New American Library, 1961.

"The Family that Plays Together." Show, June 1962, pp. 10–11, 14–15.

"In Quest of Miss America." Show, Sep. 1962, pp. 61, 104–06.

"New Mexico: Tom-Tom Christmas." Show, Dec. 1962, pp. 125–26.

"Jonathan Winters: Always On." Holiday, Nov. 1965, pp. 101–12.

"Films." Esquire, April 1972, pp. 30, 204; May 1972, p. 63; June 1972, pp. 61–62; July 1972, pp. 70, 72; Aug. 1972, P. 32; Sep. 1972, p. 56; Oct. 1972, p. 46; Nov. 1972, pp. 108, 117,190; Dec. 1972, p. 112; Jan. 1973, p. 46; Feb. 1973, pp. 133, 135; Mar, 1973, p. 74; April 1973, pp. 59–60; May 1973, pp. 19–20; June 1973, pp. 62, 64.

"Thomas Berger on Little Big Man." Audience, July-Aug. 1972, pp. 38–45.

"Candy Darling Is (Almost) All Girl." Rpt. "Films." Esquire, April 1972. Esquire, Anniversary Issue, Oct. 1973, pp. 162, 394, 396.

"I Am Not a Movie Person." American Film, Dec. 1981, pp. 34–36.

Reviews

Rev, of The House of Breath, by William Goyen. Intro, 1 (1950), 44–45.

*Rev of Modern Romantics, A New Romantic Anthology. New Leader, 22 April 1950, n. p.

"Skywriting in April." Rev, of The Ironing Board, by Christopher Morley. New Leader, 27 May 1950, p. 24.

"Imagination vs. Reason." Rev, of Science and English Poetry: A Historical Sketch, 1590–1950, by Douglas Bush. New Leader, 15 July 1950, p. 24.

"Crisis-Morality in Fiction." Rev, of The Novel of Violence in America, by W. M. Frohock. New Leader, 26 Aug. 1950, p. 25.

"Orwell as Essayist; Pound as Correspondent." Rev, of Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell; The Letters of Ezra Pound; and An Examination of Ezra Pound. Intro, 1 (1951), 98–100.

"Ideology and Literature." Rev, of The Age of Longing, by Arthur Koestler; and The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt. Intro, 1 (1951), 169–71.

"F. R. Leavis on Poetry." Rev, of New Bearings in English Poetry, by F. R. Leavis. New Leader, 1 Jan. 1951, p. 24.

"He Plays Upon a Blue Guitar." Rev, of The Shaping Spirit: A Study of Wallace Stevens, by William Van O’Connor. New Leader, 25 June 1951, p. 23.

"Was Rommel a Democrat?" Rev, of Rommel, The Desert Fox, by Desmond Young. New Leader, 16 July 1951, p. 25.

*"A Passage to Spain." Rev, of Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell. Institute of Social Studies Bulletin, 1, No. 7 (1952), 77.

"The Intellectual’s Agony." Rev, of The Captive Mind, by Czeslaw Milosz. Institute of Social Studies Bulletin, 2, No. 3 (1953), 27, 35.

Rev, of A Woman in Berlin, Anonymous. Socialist Call, Nov. 1954, pp. 23–24.

"Back from the Pit." Rev. of Human Behavior in the Concentration Camp, by EIie A. Cohen. Institute of Social Studies Bulletin, 3, No. 2 (1955), 16. Rev, of Harvest of Hate, by Léon Poliakov. Socialist Call, April 1955, pp. 22–23.

Rev. of Evergreen Review. Socialist Call, Aug. 1957, p. 23.

"A Sense of Place." Rev. of England: A Travel Journal, by Nikos Kazantzakis. New York Times Book Review, 13 Feb. 1966, pp. 4–5.

Rev. of The Making of the President 1972, by Theodore H. White. New York Times Book Review, 5 Aug. 1973, pp. 1, 22–23.

"Homage to Andalucia," Rev. of Shadows and Wolves, by William Herrick. New Leader, 19 May 1980, pp. 24–25.

Interviews

Swardson, Roger. "Do You Have the Urge to Write?" Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Jan. 1959, n. p.

Britton, Anne. "Scalping Best Seller: Thomas Berger Talks to Ann Britton in Wild West Kensington." Books and Bookmen, Oct. 1965, pp. 46–53,

Rydell, Charles, "Book-Maker-of-the-Month: Thomas Berger." Andy Warhol’s Interview, July 1975, pp. 38–39.

Hughes, Douglas. "Thomas Berger’s Elan: An Interview." Confrontation, No. 12 (1976), pp. 23–39,

Schickel, Richard. "Interviewing Thomas Berger." New York Times Book Review, 6 April 1980, p. 1, 21–22.

Moore, Jean P. "Author of ‘Neighbors’ Says It’s His Favorite . . ." Tampa Tribune, 21 Dec. 1981, pp. 1D, 6D. Rpt. "An Interview with Thomas Berger." In Florida English Journal, 18 (April 1982), 4–5.

Letters and Personal Statements

"Correspondence Between Henry Miller & Thomas Berger." Black Messiah, Premiere Issue: A Tribute to Henry Miller, No. 1 (1981), pp. 30–33.

"Into Jargon." Letter to the Editor, Time, 2 Nov. 1981, p. E2.

"A Statement." Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1980. Ed. Karen L. Rood, Jean W. Ross, and Richard Ziegfeld. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981, p. 17.

"Works In Progress." New York Times Book Review, 6 June 1982, p. 11.

Drama

"Application to Elysium." Esquire, Dec. 1967, pp. 214–16, 270–76.

"Controversy: The Arthur Bader Show." Esquire, Mar. 1969, pp. 90–93, 134, 140–41.

"Howard Hughes, Much Expanded, Improved, and Revised." Esquire, April 1972, pp. 157–58, 215.

Act I of "Other People." Works in Progress. No. 6. New York: Literary Guild of America, 1972, pp. 45–75.

Translations

*"Translations of Two Poems of Christian Morgenstern." Bird Effort, Nos. 3–4 (n.d.), pp. 104–07.

II. WORKS ABOUT THOMAS BERGER

Articles and Miscellaneous References

Betts, Richard A. "Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man: Contemporary Picaresque." Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, 23, No. 2 (1981–82), 85–96.

Bezanson, Mark, "Berger and Penn’s West: Visions and Revisions." In The Modern American Novel and the Movies, Ed. Gerald Perry and Roger Shatzkin. New York: Frederick Unger Publishing Co., 1978, pp. 272–81.

Bloodworth, William. "Literary Extensions of the Formula Western," Western American Literature, 14 (1980), 287–96.

Bruhns, Uwe. "Thomas Berger: Little Big Man." Amerikanische Erzählliteratur 1950–1970, Ed. Frieder Busch and Renate Schmidt-v. Bardeleben. Munich: Fink, 1975, pp. 113–25.

Cleary, Michael, "Finding the Center of the Earth: Satire, History, and Myth in Little Big Man." Western American Literature, 15 (1980), 195–211.

Dippie, Brian W. "Jack Crabb and the Sole Survivors of Custer’s Last Stand." Western American Literature, 4 (1969), 189–202.

Fetrow, Fred M. "The Function of the External Narrator in Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man." Journal of Narrative Technique, 5 (1975), 57–65,

Green, Gerald, "Back to Bigger." In Proletarian Writers of the Thirties, Ed. David Madden. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1968, pp. 26–45.

Gurian, Jay. "Style in the Literary Desert: Little Big Man." Western American Literature, 3 (1969), 285–96.

*Hancock, Joyce. "Squaring the Circle: The System of Conflicts in Little Big Man." Amanuensis, 1 (1972), 37–43.

Harris, Charles B. Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd. New Haven: College and University Press, 1971, pp. 129–31.

Hassan, Ihab. "Conscience and Incongruity: The Fiction of Thomas Berger." Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, 5, No. 2 (1962), 4–15,

Heatherington, Madelon E. "Romance Without Women: The Sterile Fiction of the American West." Georgia Review, 33 (1979), 643–56.

Hughes, Douglas A. "The Schlemiel as Humanist: Thomas Berger’s Carlo

Reinhart." Cithara, 15, No. 1 (1975), 3–21.

Janssen, Ronald Richard. "Taking on Reality: Themes and Structures in the Works of Thomas Berger." Diss, Kentucky 1977.

Kazin, Alfred. Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1973, p. 281.

Landon, Brooks, "The Radical Americanist." Nation, 225 (1977), 151–53.

Landon, Brooks, "Language and the Subversion of Good Order in Thomas Berger’s Regiment of Women." Philological Quarterly, 62 (1983), 21–30.

Landon, Richard Brooks. "Extremes of Parataxis: Nonrationalism in the Writing of Gertrude Stein and Thomas Berger." Diss. Texas at Austin 1978.

La Polla, Franco. "Le Strade Dell’ Apocalisse: II Nuovo Romanzo Americano." Paragone (Italy), No. 302 (1975), 19–37.

Lee, L. L. "American, Western, Picaresque: Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man." South Dakota Review, 4, No. 2 (1966), 35–42,

Lee, Robert Edson. From West to East: Studies in the Literature of the American West. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1966, p. 156.

Madden, David, "Thomas Berger’s Comic-Absurd Vision in Who Is Teddy Villanova?" Armchair Detective, 14 (1981), 37–43.

Mitchell, Burroughs. The Education of an Editor. New York: Doubleday, 1980, pp. 141–45.

Moore, Jean P. "The Creative Function of the Popular Arts in the Novels of

"Thomas Berger." Diss. South Florida 1981.

Oliva, Leo E. "Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man as History." Western American Literature, 8 (1973), 33–54.

Pilkington, William T. "Aspects of the Western Comic Novel." Western American Literature, 1 (1966), 209–17.

"Quixote in the Kitchen." Time, 12 Oct. 1981, pp. 109, 112.

Royot, Daniel, "Aspects of the American Picaresque in Little Big Man." In Les Americanistes: New French Criticism on Modern American Fiction. Ed. Ira D. Johnson and Christiane Johnson. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1978, pp. 37–52.

Ryan, Marjorie. "Four Contemporary Satires and the Problem of Norms." Satire Newsletter, 6, No. 2 (1969), 40–46.

Schulz, Max F. Black Humor Fiction of the Sixties: A Pluralistic Definition of Man and His World. Athens, Ohio: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 72–77,

*"Thomas Berger’s Regiment of Women: Beyond Lysistrata." Studies in Contemporary Satire, 1 (1975), 1–3.

Trachtenberg, Stanley. "Berger and Barth: The Comedy of Decomposition." In Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Sarah Blacher Cohen. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1978, pp. 45–69.

Turner, Frederick. "The Second Decade of Little Big Man." Nation, 225 (1977), 149–51.

Turner, III, Frederick W. "Melville and Thomas Berger: The Novelist as Cultural Anthropologist." Centennial Review, 13 (1969), 101–21,

Turner, John W. "Little Big Man, The Novel and the Film: A Study of Narrative Structure," Literature/Film Quarterly, 5 (1977), 154–63.

Weber, Brom. "The Mode of ‘Black Humor.’" In The Comic Imagination in American Literature. Ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1973, pp. 361–71.

Wylder, Delbert E. "Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man as Literature." Western American Literature, 3 (1969), 273–84.

Reviews

Crazy in Berlin (1958)

Baro, Gene. ‘Post-war Berlin in a Powerful Novel." New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 26 Oct. 1958, p. 12.

Prescott, Orville. "Books of the Times," New York Times, Daily, 14 Nov. 1958, p. 25,

Smith, William James. "The Genuine Gallows Humor," Commonweal, 69 (1958–59), 392–93,

Swados, Harvey. "An American in Berlin." New Leader, 15 Dec. 1958, p. 24.

Reinhart in Love (1962)

Goran, Lester. "Comic Tale Fitted with Deadly Barbs." Chicago Sunday Tribune, 8 April 1962, Part 4, p. 3.

Hicks, Granville. "Little Man, What Absurdity Now?" Saturday Review, 14 April 1962, p. 24.

McMichael, George. "Berger Novel—Comic Patterns in a Deranged World." San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 1962, p. 32.

Morgan, Al. New York Herald Tribune Books, 15 April 1962, p. 7.

Shapiro, Charles, "A Splendid, Booming Novel." Courier-Journal (Louisville), 22 April 1962, Sec. 4, p. 7.

Wilkinson, Burke. "Carlo Comes Home From the Wars." New York Times Book Review, 15 April 1962, p. 37.

Little Big Man (1964)

Cassil, R. V. "Seldom Is Heard an Encouraging Word." Book Week, 25 Oct. 1964, p. 2.

Davenport, Guy. ‘Tough Characters, Solid Novels." National Review, 17 (1965), 66–70.

*Davenport, John. "Wild Jack Crabb," Observer (London), 10 Oct. 1965, p. 28.

Elliott, George P. "Heaped Forked Tongue." Book Week, 11 Oct. 1964, p. 24.

*Gilchrist, James A. Best Sellers, 24 (1964), 309–10.

Hicks, Granville. "Paleface in the Cheyenne Camp." Saturday Review, 10 Oct. 1964, pp. 39–40.

"Indians and Cowboys." Times Literary Supplement, 9 Sep. 1965, p. 769.

Kauffmann, Stanley. "O’Hara and Others." New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 1964, p. 21.

Prescott, Orville. "Books of the Times: Jack Crabb, Survivor of the Little Big Horn," New York Times, Daily, 9 Oct. 1964, p. 37.

Smith, William James. "In the Vein of Mark Twain." Commonweal, 81 (1964), 294–96.

Walker, Gerald. "Pecos Picaresque." New York Times Book Review, 11 Oct. 1964, p. 42.

Wordsworth, Christopher. "Wild West Show," Manchester Guardian, 16 Sep. 1965, p. 10.

Killing Time (1967)

Davenport, Guy. "Masters of Time and Place." National Review, 19 (1967),

1282–83.

Davis, Douglas M. "In a Trio of New Fiction Offerings, More of the Bleak, Black Humor." National Observer, 25 Sep. 1967, p. 25.

Fowles, Jib. "Mad Though Not Mad Cap." New Leader, 6 Nov. 1967, pp. 26–27.

Gass, William H. "Fumbling Sleight of Hand." New York Times Book Review, 17 Sep. 1967, pp. 6, 50.

Graham, Kenneth. "Varieties of Picaresque." Listener, 79 (1968), 639–40.

Hicks, Granville. "Not Who Done It, But Why?" Saturday Review, 23 Sep. 1967, pp. 77, 83.

Homer, Antony. "Telling a Story." Books and Bookmen, July 1968, pp. 37–38.

Johnson, Lucy. "Two Comic Novels." Progressive, Jan. 1968, p. 50.

Kauffmann, Stanley. "Scar-Spangled Banner," New Republic, 23 Sep. 1967, pp. 20, 30.

Vital Parts (1970)

Bell, Pearl K. "Sequels." Commentary, Oct. 1981, pp. 74–75.

Black, Campbell. ‘Deep Freeze." New Statesman, 81 (1971), 466.

Cassill, R. V. "Reinhart Back from Berlin, Out of Love and Ready for Freezing." New York Times Book Review, 29 Mar. 1970, pp. 4, 27.

*Cook, Bruce. "Black Humorist Berger Returns, Still Full of Joy." National Observer, 13 April 1970, p. 23.

Davenport, Guy. "A Chaplin Among the Cannibals." Life, 27 Mar. 1970, p. 12.

Davenport, Guy. "Radiant Contempt." National Review, 22 (1970), 420–21.

Hollander, John. Harper’s Magazine, Apr. 1970, pp. 105–06.

Leonard, John. "Reinhart on the Rocks." New York Times, Daily, 31 Mar. 1970, p. 39.

Pettingell, Phoebe. "Perpetual Sucker." New Leader, 11 May 1970, pp. 28–30

Richler, Mordecai. "Of the Essence." Guardian Weekly (Manchester), 17 April 1971, p. 18.

Schickel, Richard. "Bitter Comedy." Commentary, July 1970, pp. 76–80.

Theroux, Paul. "A Hankering for the Forties." Book World, 12 April 1970, p. 6.

"Twice as Much to Freeze." Times Literary Supplement, 30 April 1971, p. 493.

Weber, Brom. Saturday Review, 21 Mar. 1970, p. 42.

Wolff, Geoffrey. "Unlikely Hero." Newsweek, 20 April 1970, pp. 116A-B.

Regiment of Women (1973)

Ackroyd, Peter. "Life Is a Drag." Spectator, 25 May 1974, pp. 646–47.

Black, David. "A Man’s Place." Book World, 17 June 1973, p. 4.

Braudy, Leo. New York Times Book Review, 13 May 1973, pp. 6–7.

C[lemons], W[alter]. "Georgie’s Travels." Newsweek, 21 May 1973, pp. 100–02.

Cook, Bruce. "Recall Black Humor? It’s Back—Sort Of." National Observer, 26 May 1973, p. 21.

Dickstein, Lore. Ms., Aug. 1973, pp. 32–34.

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "2 Deceptive Works of Fiction." New York Times, Daily, 22 May 1973, p. 39.

Levy, Francis. "Reversing Roles." New Leader, 12 Nov. 1973, p. 20.

Mellors, John. "Squaw New World." Listener, 92 (1974), 61.

"Pull the Other Leg." Times Literary Supplement, 24 May 1974, p. 545.

Skow, John. "Turnabout What?" Time, 14 May 1973, pp. E7–E8.

Todd, Richard. "God’s First Mistakes." Atlantic, Sep. 1973, pp. 106–08.

Wagner, Geoffrey. "Mister Ms." National Review, 25 (1973), 799–800.

Sneaky People (1975)

Bakshian, Jr., Aram. "The Seamy Side of Main Street." Wall Street Journal, 29 May 1975, p. 12.

Broyard, Anatole. "A Book’s Reason for Being." New York Times, Daily, 14 April 1975, p. 29.

Bryant, Rene Kuhn, "Berger’s Plastic Nostalgia." National Review, 27 (1975), 1127–28,

Clemons, Walter. "Lust and Laughter." Newsweek, 28 April 1975, pp. 78–79.

Cook, Bruce, "What’s So Funny? In this Trio, Not Much," National Observer, 28 June 1975, p. 19.

Harris, Michael. "A Garden of Devious Delights." Book World, 20 April 1975, p. 3.

Mano, D. Keith. "A Good Book by a Good Writer, Thomas Berger." New York Times Book Review, 20 April 1975, pp. 4–5.

Todd, Richard. "Escaping False Categories." Atlantic, Sep. 1975, p. 84.

Who Is Teddy Villanova? (1977)

Clemons, Walter. "Dashiell Chandler." Newsweek, 4 April 1977, p. 85. Goodman, Walter. "The Shamus as Schlemiel," New Leader, 23 May 1977, pp. 12–13.

Gray, Paul. "Loopy Locutions." Time, 4 April 1977, p. 86,

Leonard, John. "Books of the Times," New York Times, Daily, 18 Mar. 1977, p. C21.

Michaels, Leonard. "If Hammett and Chandler Were Written by Perelman Who Is Teddy Villanova?" New York Times Book Review, 20 Mar. 1977, pp. 1, 25–26,

Sale, Roger. "Hostages." New York Review of Books, 26 May 1977, pp. 39–40,

Suplee, Curt. "As the Word Turns," Book World, 10 April 1977, p. E9.

Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel (1978)

Atlas, James, "Chivalry Is Dead." Time, 25 Sep. 1978, pp. E8, 110.

Davis, L. J. "Camelot as a Haunted House." Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 1978, Sec. 7, p. 6.

Dulac, Alicia. Best Sellers, 38 (1979), 335–36.

Epps, Garrett. New Republic, 7 Oct. 1978, pp. 34–36.

*Fremont-Smith, Eliot. "Short Circuits," Village Voice, 27 Nov. 1978, p. 105.

Fuller, Edmund. "An Enchanting Retelling of Arthurian Legend." Wall Street Journal, 5 Feb. 1979, p. 18.

Romano, John. "Camelot and All That." New York Times Book Review, 12 Nov. 1978, pp. 3, 62.

Sipper, Ralph B. "Thomas Berger Takes on the Age of Chivalry." San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 1978, p. 53.

Suplee, Curt. "Knights to Remember." Book World, 17 Sep. 1978, p. E8.

Yohalem, John. "Berger’s Blights of the Round Table," Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan, 1979, p. 19.

Neighbors (1980)

Clemons, Walter. "Slippery Foothold," Newsweek, 14 April 1980, p. 96B.

Edwards, Thomas R. "Domestic Guerrillas." New York Times Book Review, 6 April 1980, pp. 1, 23.

Gray, Paul. "A House Is Not a Home," Time, 7 April 1980, p. 84,

Kapp, Isa. New Republic, 26 April 1980, pp. 34–36.

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Book of the Times." New York Times, Daily, 1 April 1980, p. Cl0.

Malone, Michael. "American Literature’s Little Big Man." Nation, 230 (1980), 535–37,

Reinhart’s Women (1981)

Baumbach, Jonathan. American Book Review, 20 Mar. 1982, p. 16.

DeMott, Benjamin. "Further Adventures of a Loser." New York Times Book Review, 27 Sep. 1981, pp. 9, 28–29.

Keller, Karl. "Berger, with Relish." Los Angeles Time Book Review, 1 Nov. 1981, p. 1.

Leonard, John. "Books of the Times." New York Times, Daily, 28 Sep. 1981, p. C15.

Reed, J. D. Time, 12 Oct. 1981, pp. 109, 112.

Stuewe, Paul, "Imports: From Bauhaus to the Issa Valley to Wesley’s England." Quill & Quire, Dec. 1981, p. 32.

Tucker, Chris. "Slouching Toward Burger King." Progressive, Feb. 1982, pp. 59–61.

The Feud (1983)

Beatty, Jack. "A Comedy of Bad Manners." New Republic, 23 May 1983, p. 39.

Gorra, Michael. "Comic-Book Quarrel." Nation, 236 (1983), 741–43.

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Books of the Times." New York Times, Daily, 2 May 1983, p. C16.

Madden, David W. San Francisco Review of Books, 8, No. 2 (July-Aug. 1983), 18–19.

Prescott, Peter S. "American Provincial." Newsweek, 23 May 1983, pp. 77–77C.

Sheppard, R. Z. "Millvillers and Hornbeckers." Time, 23 May 1983, p. 78.

Tyler, Anne. "Home Folks at One Another’s Throats," New York Times Book Review, 8 May 1983, pp. 1, 24.

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