Editors and Critics Positively Referenced in A Reader's Manifesto
B.R. Myers provides favorable editors and critics as means to confirm his arguments. The following are present within the 2002 edition of A Reader's Manifesto:
- Louis L'Amour
- Saul Bellow
- David Lodge (author)
- Cyril Connolly
- Christopher Isherwood
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