Greg Barnhisel is a professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (2015) and James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound (2005) and editor of the journal Book History. He has written for scholarly and trade publications including Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Humanities, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is currently completing a biography of the professor and spy Norman Holmes Pearson, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Undercover Lovers, or How The CIA Became Style
Greg Barnhisel considers how our stories about the Cold War are evolving from politically urgent realist narratives to a narrative convention itself....
The Second City of Black America
Greg Barnhisel reviews “Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance.”...
Outlandish Assertions: Response to Joel Whitney
IN JOEL WHITNEY'S RESPONSE to my review of his book Finks, which was to be published as a Letter to the ...
Finks, Fronts, and Puppets: Revisiting the Cultural Cold War
Greg Barnhisel reviews two books on the Cultural Cold War....
Cold Opening: The Publicity Campaign for “Watchman”
The publicity game and the death of book reviewing: why the semi-cold opening for "Watchman"?...
James Laughlin’s New Directions
By founding New Directions Books, James Laughlin shaped an entire chanel of literary history....
He Worked at the Writer’s Trade
Greg Barnhisel reviews the letters of the literary eminence Malcolm Cowley....
On Rogues and Social Science
Greg Barnhisel reviews the second, less successful, installment of the Rogue Sociologist....
What exactly is “piracy” in the digital age?
What exactly is “piracy” when it comes to digital content?...
