Title: Literary luxuries
First published: 1995
Description: From the Iowa Writers Workshop to the halls of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts, from the world of literary magazines and writers' conferences to the bizarre realm of the late-twentieth-century American English department, Literary Luxuries takes the reader on a guided tour of American literary life in our time - and the forces threatening its existence.

Joe David Bellamy has been a significant figure on the literary scene during the last three decades; as a "literary Everyman," he offers in Literary Luxuries a distinctive and valuable perspective on the culture wars, on education and the imagination, on particular writers and major literary and aesthetic movements, on the role of government in fostering cultural development, and on the day-to-day strife of the writer's life in the United States.
Subjects: American fiction, History and criticism, Intellectual life, 20th century, Authorship, Languages & Literatures, American Literature, General, American, LITERARY CRITICISM, English, United states, intellectual life, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
Places: United States
People: Joe David Bellamy
Time periods: 20th century, Intellectual life
LC classification: PS379 .B424 1995