Joe David Bellamy

"Literary Luxuries is an exciting and informative book that offers a coherent overview of American literary history of the last thirty years that is, to my knowledge, unobtainable anywhere else. This book will be an important resource to scholars studying American artistic culture of the second half of the twentieth century." --Kelly Cherry

"It comes as a positive relief to have the clear, impassioned voice of an unapologetic defender of literature emerge from our cultural morass. It is the steadfast voice of a literary citizen proclaiming the lasting supremacy of the written word in a world where 'booming electronic gadgets and mindless electronic celebrities' distract many of us from any semblance of an inner life.... If it is to flourish again, literature will need more high-minded champions like Mr. Bellamy at the start of the next millennium."
--John Golden