of the 1992 presidential campaign," and "preciously insubstantial vignettes" for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. "If, for some reason, you consider yourself a New York intellectual, Sea Battles on Dry Land might encourage you to secede from the tribe," wrote Susie Linfield in her review of the book for The New York Observer. "When [Brodkey] is bad, he is very, very bad, and he is very, very bad quite often. Sea Battles is filled with whoppers: misstatements, overstatements, nonstatements and statements that are silly, false or incomprehensible." Bibliography Short-story collections First Love and Other Sorrows (1958, ) Women and Angels (1985, ) (3 stories, all later included in his 1988 collection). Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (1988, ) The World is the Home of Love and Death (1997, ) Novels The Runaway Soul (1991, ) Profane Friendship (1994, ) Non-fiction This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death (1996, ) My Venice (1998, ) Sea Battles on Dry Land: Essays (1999, ) References External links Jonathan Baskin, "Fading Fast," Bookforum Harold Brodkey resources on the Web "People: Harold Brodkey", The New York Times 1930 births 1996 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American memoirists Cornell University faculty O. Henry Award winners Novelists from Illinois Novelists from Missouri Novelists from New York (state) Harvard Advocate alumni People from Staunton, Illinois People from St. Louis County, Missouri AIDS-related deaths in New York (state) Jewish American novelists American male novelists American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American Jews