Bryer (U. of Maryland) and Kopley (Pennsylvania State U.) present nine articles incorporating archival scholarship and bibliographical analysis in American literary resources, as well as
several book reviews. The articles range in discussion from Benjamin Franklin's papers to an annotated bibliography of items of Herman Melville. In others, literature scholars from the US
discuss Julian Hawthorne's contributions to the Pasadena Star News from 1923 to 1935, letters written to Mark Twain, Mike Gold's short stories, manuscript variants of an Elizabeth Bishop poem,
two versions of Irwin Shaw's short story The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, an annotated bibliography of special printings of works by Raymond Carver, and an interview with Andre Dubus.
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