Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud

Evelyn Avery is Professor of English and Coordinator of Jewish Studies at Towson University. She is the author of Rebels and Victims: The Fiction of Richard Wright and Bernard Malamud.

• PrefaceIntroduction I. The Author 1. Malamud in Corvallis: Memories of Dad – Paul Malamud 2. Recollecting Bernie – Interviews with Colleagues at Oregon State – Paul Malamud 3. Remembrances: Bernard Malamud – Cynthia Ozick 4. Malamud: Seen and Unseen – Daniel Stern 5. On "The Magic Barrel" – Nicholas Delbanco 6. The Rhythms of Friendship in the Life of Art: The Correspondence of Bernard Malamud and Rosemarie Beck - Joel Salzberg II. Individual Works 7. America and the History of the Jews in Bernard Malamud's The Last Mohican – Karen Polster 8. Zen Buddhism and The Assistant – Edward Abramson 9. Malamud's New [Academic] Life – and Ours – Sanford Pinsker 10. The lives of Dubin – Walter Shear 11. Gorilla in the Myth: Malamud's God's Grace – D. Mesher 12. Reflections on Transmogrified Yiddish Archetypes in Fiction by Bernard Malamud – S. Lillian Kremer 13. Not True Although Truth: The Holocaust's Legacy in Three Malamud Stories: "The German Refugee," "Man in the Drawer," and "The Lady of the Lake" – Eileen H. Watts 14. Bernard and Juliet: Romance and Desire in Malamud's High Art – Alan Cheuse 15. Bernard Malamud and Cynthia Ozick: Kindred Neshamas – Evelyn Avery 16. Bernard Malamud and His Universal Menschen – Daniel Walden 17. A Kind of Vigilance: Tropic Suspension in Bernard Malamud's Fiction – Victoria Aarons IV. Annotated Select Bibliography – Eileen H. Watts Index

"He wrote about suffering Jews, about poor Jews, about grocers and fixers and birds and horses and angels in Harlem and matchmakers and salesmen and rabbis and landlords and tenants and egg chandlers and writers and chimpanzees; he wrote about the plentitude and unity of the world...May the memory of this great and humane Master be blessed and forever green. As it will be, as long as there are readers." — Cynthia Ozick, from chapter 3, "Remembrances: Bernard Malamud""The book offers a remarkably vivid and consistent portrait of this significant American writer and marks a valuable contribution to what we know about Malamud." — Andrew Furman, author of Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination