This important gathering of previously uncollected and unpublished material enlarges the assessment of O'Hara as a craftsman and a conscious literary artist. O'Hara's preoccupation with the craft of writing is superbly revealed in the series of lectures he gave on the American novel at Rider College in Trenton, N.J. These hitherto unpublished lectures contain major critical statements about the techniques of fiction writing. O'Hara...