Works of and on John Yount

Novels

Wolf at the Door: 1st ed. Random House, 1967; 2nd ed. Open Road, 2014. Elizabeth Collamore, Hartford Courant (11 June 1967); Henry Mitchell, New York Times (2 July 1967); Harold M. Grutzmacher, Chicago Tribune (16 July 1967); Robert Granat, Chicago Tribune (10 September 1967).

The Trapper’s Last Shot: 1st ed. Random House, 1973; 2nd ed. Open Road, 2014. SKO, Newsweek (8 October 1973); Mel Watkins, New York Times (17 February 1974); Irving R. Post, Boston Globe (17 March 1974); Barbara Bourke, Irish Times (7 September 1974); Christopher Bickers, Red and Black (16 January 1975).

Hardcastle: 1st ed. Richard Marek, 1980; 2nd ed. Southern Methodist University Press, 1992; 3rd ed. Open Road, 2014. — Reviews: Raymond Carver, Chicago Tribune (18 May 1980); Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times (23 May 1980); Elaine Kendal, Los Angeles Times (1 June 1980); Jim Marks, Washington Post (27 June 1980); Bruce Allen, Christian Science Monitor (11 August 1980); Paul Darcy Boles, Atlanta Constitution (19 October 1980); John Gabree, Newsday (20 January 1985).

Toots in Solitude: 1st ed. St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984; 2nd ed. Southern Methodist University Press, 1995; 3rd ed. Open Road, 2014. — Reviews: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times (24 January 1984); Dan Cryer, Newsday, (26 January 1984); Bette Pesetsky, New York Times (29 January 1984); Wiliam K. Robertson, Hartford Courant (22 February 1984);

Thief of Dreams: 1st ed. Viking Penguin, 1991; 2nd ed. Southern Methodist University Press, 1994; 3rd ed. Open Road, 2014. Rosellen Brown, New York Times (17 March 1991); Douglas Seibold, Chicago Tribune (7 April 1991); John Schulian, Los Angeles Times (7 April 1991); Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post (5 May 1991).

 

Other

‘Walker Percy’s Funhouse Mirror: More True than Distorted,’ Chicago Tribune (27 February 1977).

Works of and on Rudolph Friedmann

Rudolph Friedmann was a bookseller and writer. His writing is consistently experimental in form. He typically combines essay and fictional narrative. The one overwhelming influence on his writing was Sigmund Freud; though as is evident from the following, existentialism, especially Kirkegaard, is also important for him. Gershon Legman, in No Laughing Matter, describes his work as ‘poetic or “aphoristic” analysis.’

Very little has been written about him. He appears in the background of a few works of literary history and biography: see section 2. Read those to see why I am fascinated by him.

Updated 11 February 2026.

Works of and on John Horne Tooke

The following is a very — extremely! — incomplete list of works by and about John Horne Tooke, the Radical political botherer, also a very interesting philologist and, I think it is fair to say, in view of his Diversions of Purley, philosopher, or at least moralist. I have included very little of what he wrote so far. I shall get to it eventually.

Updated 14 January 2026.

The Development of the Diversions of Purley

Coleridge (Specimens of the Table-Talk, 7 May 1830), says that Horne Tooke ‘had that clearness which is founded on shallowness. … His mind had no progression or developement. All that is worth any thing … in the Diversions of Purley is contained in a short pamphlet-letter which he addressed to Mr. Dunning; then it was enlarged to an octavo … at last, a quarto volume, I believe, came out; and yet … there was no addition to the argument of the pamphlet.’ Coleridge’s judgment of the Diversions is unjust; though given that it is an untimely sort of work the force of whose insights is more easily registered after the intervening two centuries of moral and psychological criticism, the blunder is forgivable.