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4 unusual facts about Harold Brodkey


Harold Brodkey

“Entering The Runaway Soul,” wrote Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times, “is like arriving at a monthlong house party and being accosted at the door by your host, who sticks his mouth in your face and begins to talk.”

At the time of his death in 1996, he was living in New York City with his wife, novelist Ellen Brodkey (née Schwamm).

Reviewing First Love for The Christian Science Monitor, Melvin Maddocks wrote that "a sense of vital, untampered-with conflict is missing.

The World Is the Home of Love and Death

The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories is a collection of short stories written by Harold Brodkey and first published posthumously in 1997.


The Quarterly

"The Magazine of New American Writing" featured works by; Ann Pyne, Jan Pendleton, Victor Barall, Jennifer Allen, Harold Brodkey, M. D. Stein and others.


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