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Robert Boyers

Robert Boyers is the editor of the quarterly Salmagundi and Professor of English at Skidmore College. He is the author of recent books on Lionel Trilling and F.R. Leavis.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 2

Essays & Memoir | Issue 2

The Weightless Characters of William Styron

Robert Boyers

‘The belief in free will is necessary to most good fiction.’

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