Books, essays, and articles about Richard Yates and his
work
Richard Yates, Tawyne's United States Author Series, by David Castronovo
and Steven Goldleaf. Twayne Publishers, New York 1996.
A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, by Blake
Bailey. Picador USA, 2003.
The
New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield,
and Thomas McGuane, by Jerome Klinkowitz. Univ of Georgia Press,
1986.
"American Beauty (Circa 1955),"
by Richard Ford, New York Times Book Review, New York; 9 April
2000.
"Richard Yates: An Introduction,"
by Michael Shinagel, Harvard Review, Fall 2003, Issue 25; pg.
50.
"The
Lost World of Richard Yates," by Stewart O'Nan, Boston Review,
October/November, 1999.
"Poor Dick: Looking for the Real Richard
Yates," by Blake Bailey, Harvard Review, Fall 2003,
Issue 25; pg. 53.
"Excerpt from The Art of Fiction No. 183,
with Tobias Wolff," The Paris Review, Issue 171, Fall
2004. Interviewed by Jack Livings.
"Drinking With Dick Yates," by
Martin Naparsteck, The North American Review, May-August 2001,
p75.
"Eleven
Kinds of Loneliness," by Dennis Loy Johnson (Yates's bartender),
2001.
"Out
of Oblivion: A writer rejoices that Richard Yates' stories are back in
print," by Ann Beattie, San Francisco Chronicle, May
6, 2001.
Revolutionary Road on Time's
All-Time 100 best novels (which, rather lamely, starts at 1923, the
year Time magazine was born).
"Richard
Yates, In Memoriam," by Don Lee, Ploughshares, Vol.
18.4, 1992.
"A Salute To Mr. Yates," by Andre
Dubus, Black Warrior Review, Volume 15.2, Spring 1989.
"Richard Yates, Novelist, 66, Dies; Chronicler
of Disappointed Lives," by Eric Pace, New York Times,
9 November 1992.
"Remarks at the Richard Yates Memorial
Service," by Kurt Vonnegut, Harvard Review, Fall 2003,
Issue 25; pg. 78.
"What
Richard Yates would think of Sam Mendes Making Revolutionary Road,"
by Blake Bailey, Slate, 26 June 2007.
"An
Emotional Journey Down Revolutionary Road," by Anthony
Giardina, "All Things Considered" on NPR, 17 July 2007.
"Points of Craft From Richard Yates,"
by DeWitt Henry, remarks delivered to the Association of Writers &
Writting Programs conference, February 2008.
"Rebirth
of a Dark Genius," by Nick Frasier, Guardian, 17 February
2008.
"Here's Hoping," by Monica
Shapiro, written for richardyates.org, 29 March 2008.
"Drawing the Curtains for Richard Yates,"
by Morten Jensen, written for richardyates.org, Sept. 2008.
"Blaming
the 'Burbs," by Adelle Waldman, The New Republic,
22 December 2008.
"The Collected Stories of Richard Yates," by Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post, 22 April 2001 pT02.
"The Collected Stories of Richard Yates," by Stewart O'Nan, Ploughshares, Spring 2001.
"Just Like Mother," by Theo Tait, The London Review of Books, 6 February 2003, vol.25, no. 3.
"Secret Hearts," by Richard Russo (introduction to Collected Stories).
The New Yorker, 1 April 1961.
"Books of The Times: Revolutionary Road," by Orville Prescott, New York Times, 10 March 1961.
"Left unsaid," by John Mullan, The Guardian, 18 Sept. 2004.
"Like Men Betrayed," by James Wood, The New Yorker, 15 December 2008.
"Richard Yates and His Unhappy People," by Robert Towers, New York Times, 1 November 1981.
"An Ultimate Sad Sack, Hopelessly Indefatigable," by Janet Maslin, New York Times, 26 November 2003. Review of A Tragic Honesty.