1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
John Updike
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth …
1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist
All American Music
John Rockwell
Art and Ardor: Essays
Cynthia Ozick
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
Svetlana Alpers
