Among the writers he was reading when he wrote these stories in the 1950s-and he was reading all the time, all kinds of books, dozens and dozens of them-were David Riesman, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Randall Jarrell, Sigmund Freud, Paul Goodman, William Styron, C. Wright Mills, Martin Buber, George Orwell, Suzanne Langer, F. R. Leavis, David Daiches, Edmund Wilson, Alfred Kazin, Ralph Ellison, Erich Fromm, Joseph Conrad, Dylan Thomas, Sean O'Casey, e. e. cummings-who collectively represented a republic of discourse in which he aspired to
( Philip Roth )
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