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The Insider
Malcolm Crowley and the Triumph of American Literature
Gerald Howard
2025
Penguin Press
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Book Review
The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon
In the early twentieth century, America's literature seemed provincial until Malcolm Cowley championed writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as distinctly American.
by
Kevin Lozano
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The New Yorker
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November 19, 2025
Book Review
The Man Who Rescued Faulkner
How the critic Malcolm Cowley made American literature into its own great tradition.
by
Michael Gorra
via
The Atlantic
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November 4, 2025
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Scrolling Through
Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of "On the Road."
by
Gerald Howard
via
The American Scholar
on
September 2, 2025
