An Unsentimental Education

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Cloudy yearnings: Saul Bellow
Janis Bellow

A student in Plato's academy
Paul Carroll

Beautiful language
Hayden Carruth

Disturbing the dogmas: Robert Coover
Molly McQuade

The yeast of chaos
Leon Forrest

Getting angry
June Jordan

An extreme ordinariness
Janet Kauffman

The poetry club: Janet Lewis
Richard Stern

Independence of mind
Morris Philipson

A certain zealous intensity
M. L. Rosenthal

Just a lively boy
Philip Roth

Good behavior
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Real America
Charles Simic

A gluttonous reader
Susan Sontag

Wonkiness
George Starbuck

Intellectual passions
George Steiner

Tenacity
Richard Stern

Poetry and anthropology
Nathaniel Tarn

Trying to break away
Douglas Unger

A very fringe character
Kurt Vonnegut

A vacation from the modern world
Marguerite Young

Other Chicago Writers

Index