In the fall of 1959, Harper's Magazine published a special supplement on the state of writing and the American literary scene. The supplement was greeted with a broadside of commendation and a fusillade of cavil. In this newly reissued volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint, Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960.

In the fall of 1959, Harper's Magazine published a special supplement on the state of writing and the American literary scene. It has since become recognised as the most useful brief survey of the contemporary state of the American writing arts. In this newly reissued volume, Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960.