Richard Poirier

Richard Poirier, founding editor of Raritan, was chairman of the board of the Library of America. He died in August 2009.

In the LRB Archive:

• In the Hyacinth Garden: ‘But oh – Vivienne!’ · 3 April 2003

  • Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones

• All My Truth: Henry James Memoirs · 25 April 2002

  • A Small Boy and Others: Memoirs by Henry James

• How far shall I take this character?: The Corruption of Literary Biography · 2 November 2000

  • Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas

• Big Pod: How Podhoretz Dumped His Friends · 2 September 1999

  • Ex-Friends by Norman Podhoretz

• In Praise of Mess on Walt Whitman · 4 June 1998

  • With Walt Whitman in Camden: Vol. VIII: 11 February 1891-30 September 1891 by Horace Traubel, edited by Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac
  • With Walt Whitman in Camden: Vol. IX: 11 February 1891-30 September 1891 by Horace Traubel, edited by Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac

• The Monster in the Milk Bowl · 3 October 1996

  • Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker

• In Praise of Vagueness · 14 December 1995

  • Henry James and the Art of Non-Fiction by Tony Tanner

• American Manscapes · 12 October 1989

  • Manhood and the American Renaissance by David Leverenz

• America Deserta · 16 February 1989

  • America by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner
  • America Observed: The Newspaper Years of Alistair Cooke by Ronald Wells
  • American Journals by Albert Camus, translated by Hugh Levick

• Seventeen Million Words · 7 November 1985

  • The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession edited by Daniel Aaron

• Humans · 24 January 1985

  • Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon

• Copying the coyote · 18 October 1984

  • The Principles of Psychology by William James, introduction by George Miller
  • A Stroll with William James by Jacques Barzun
  • Becoming William James by Howard Feinstein
  • Essays in Psychology by William James, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Fredson Bowers

• Peter Conrad’s Flight from Precision · 17 July 1980

  • Imagining America by Peter Conrad

• Incandescences · 20 December 1979

  • The Powers that Be by David Halberstam

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