Reading Harold Brodkey again—an occasional literary indulgence, a kind of dessert—Profane Friendships… his last and least read book. All of Brodkey’s themes, obsessions, textures, points of view are there, except transposed to Italy in the midcentury rather than the United States (New York or St Louis). This is what I suppose, allowed Brodkey (who was l…
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