Like any polyglot culture, America's full of stories; the hard part is knowing how to tell them. Try to contrive something neat, and a dozen or more elements will come crowding in to muddle it up. Try, in contrast, to embrace all the disparate elements, and you're liable to find yourself with a work that comes dangerously close to having no coherence at all. American literature's full of these all-purpose nannies'... More >>>