Jim Lipsey

This tome is long overdue. Unfortunately, the reviews on Amazon indicate the book may not live up to its cover.

Sunday’s Chicago Tribune features an opinion piece by one Stephan Benzkofer1 arguing that literary characters are canonically defined only by the published works in which they appear. He contends that a press-conference announcement by the author carries no more authority in developing a character than the criticism of a university scholar or a piece of [...]