In this episode of Private Life , Edwin Frank joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss Leslie A. Fiedler’s Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), which was reissued by NYRB Classics in April. They discuss the preoccupations of Fiedler’s literary criticism, the process of putting together a collection of criticism, and Frank’s book Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel (2024).

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Edwin Frank is the editor of New York Review Books as well as the founder and editorial director of the NYRB Classics series. In addition to Stranger than Fiction , he has also released a collection of poems, Snake Train (2015).

Leslie A. Fiedler (1917–2003) was a literary critic and novelist.…