The Paul Goodman Reader
"Goodman, like all real novelists, is, at bottom, a moralist. What really interests him are the various ways in which human beings living in a modern metropolis gain, keep, or lose their integrity and sense of selfhood."  —W. H. Auden, poet"As this decade in America careens, recoils, and shrieks along, Paul Goodman appears increasingly as our most exemplary intellectual, that is, the most deeply representative and the most worthy one." —Washington Post"Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time."  —Hayden Carruth, poet and essayist"It was that voice of his that seduced me—that direct, cranky, egotistical, generous American voice."  —Susan Sontag, novelist and public intellectual"No one writing now in America makes better sense of literary subjects."  —The Nation"This celebratory compendium is as pertinent today as when Goodman first furiously put pen to paper, and while there may be few concrete answers, Goodman's way of seeing is riveting and decidedly infectious." —Publishers Weekly(July 23, 2011)