Bibliography

 

Memoirs

Momma’s Lost Piano

Novels

Marble Goddesses & Mortal Flesh

The Last Bizarre Tale

London Bridge in Plague and Fire

Abducted by Circumstance

Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War [U. Tenn. Press, 1996, nominated for Pulitzer Prize]

On the Big Wind [Holt, 1980]

Pleasure-Dome [Bobbs-Merrill, l979]

The Suicide’s Wife [Bobbs-Merrill, 1978, nominated for Pulitzer Prize; made into a CBS Movie]

Bijou [Crown, 1974, a Book of the Month Club Selection]

Brothers in Confidence [Avon, 1972]

Hair of the Dog [Adam, serial, 1968]

Cassandra Singing [Crown, 1969, N.Y. Times Selection. Wrote screenplay for Warner Brothers] Reprinted by University of Tennessee Press, 1999.

The Beautiful Greed [Random House, 1961]

 

Collections of Short Stories

The Last Bizarre Tale [UT Press, 2014]

The New Orleans of Possibilities [LSU Press, 1982]

The Shadow Knows [LSU Press, 1970, a National Council on the Arts Selection]

 

Short Stories

Over 60. Thirteen Short Stories in Twenty-four Anthologies, mostly textbooks, including Norton, Contemporary; two in Best American Short Stories: 1969 and 1971.

 

Poems

Over 60 poems, several reprinted in anthologies.

Venice Is Sinking is a collection, not yet published.

 

Plays, Libretti, and A Radio Play

 

In The Summer They Slaughter Cattle                         C. 1947

 

Call Herman In To Summer                                                            1949

 

The Great Wings Still Beating                                                C. 1950

 

Cassandra Singing – 1 Act                                                            C. 1953

 

Medea – A Radio Play                                                                        C. 1954

 

The Idealists                                                                                    C. 1955

 

From Rome To Damascus                                                            C. 1956

 

Cassandra Singing – 3 Acts (Mid-Version)                                    C. 1958

 

Hecuba’s Lament   (A Libretto)                                                 C. 1958

 

They Shall Endure                                                                        C. 1959

 

The Freeway                                                                                    C. 1960

 

The Deep Sleep                                                                                     C. 1960

 

Casina  (Book For A Musical)                                                            C. 1964

 

Fugitive Masks                                                                                    C. 1964

 

Intimations  (A Libretto)                                                                        C. 1965

 

In My Father’s House            (1 Act Version Of The Freeway)            C. 1966

 

Cassandra Singing (Final 3 Act Version)                                    1967

 

Cassandra Singing (Screenplay)                                                1970

 

The Day The Flowers Came                                                            C. 1970

 

Cassandra Singing (A Radio Play)                                                C. 1980

 

Rosanna And Angelina (Libretto)                                                1989

 

Five Plays won state and national contests and have been produced [Yale Drama School, Actor’s Studio, Barter Theater, Etc.] and Published [First Stage, Dramatic Publishing, Etc].

 

Screenplay: Cassandra Singing [Warner Brothers, not yet filmed]

Scholarly Works

 

Touching the Web of Southern Writers, UT Press, 2006 [collection of my essays on Faulkner, Warren, Agee, Wolfe, McCullers.].

Harlequin’s Stick, Charlie’s Cane [Popular Culture Press, 1975] First book to compare commedia dell’arte & silent movie comedy]

James M. Cain [Twayne, 1970] First book on Cain.

Cain’s Craft [Scarecrow Press, 1985] A more specific study of James M. Cain’s craft as a novelist and of his movie writing]

The Poetic Image in Six Genres [Southern Illinois University Press, 1969] Collection of my literary essays.

Wright Morris [Twayne, 1964] First book on Morris.

The Fiction Tutor: The Art of Writing and Reading Fiction [Harcourt Brace, 1990]

Revising Fiction: A Handbook for Writers [Plume-Penguin, 1988; nine printings]. Reprinted 2002 by Barnes and Noble Publishers.

A Primer of the Novel: For Readers and Writers [Scarecrow, 1979]. Major revision under contract.

Writers’ Revisions: An Annotated Bibliography of Articles and Books About Writers’ Revisions and Their Comments on the Creative Process [Scarecrow, 1980], with Richard Powers.

 

Edited Works

On Literature, Specific Writers, and Civil War History

 

Thomas Wolfe’s Civil War, ed., U. of Alabama Press, 2004, editor.

Losses and Survivors of the Sultana, UT Press, 2005, editor.

O. Henry’s Civil War Surprises, ed. Proposal submitted to U of Alabama Press.

Beyond the Battlefield: The Ordinary Life and Extraordinary Times of the Civil War Soldier [Simon and Schuster, 2000.]

The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren, LSU Press, 2000.

Classics of Civil War Fiction [University Press of Mississippi, 1991], with Peggy Bach. Reprinted, revised, by University of Alabama Press, 2000.

Rediscoveries II [Carroll and Graf, 1988].  With Peggy Bach; essays written on request by famous novelists on their favorite neglected novel.

Remembering James Agee [LSU Press, 1974; major revised edition, University of Georgia Press, 1997]

Contemporary Literary Scene [Salem Press, 1974, v. I; 1979, v. II] With Frank Magill.

Nathanael West: The Cheaters and the Cheated [Edward/Edwards Press, 1973]Rediscoveries [Crown, 1971]

American Dreams, American Nightmares [Southern Illinois University Press, 1970]

Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties [Southern Illinois University Press, 1968]

Proletarian Writers of the Thirties [Southern Illinois University Press, 1968]

Literary Essays:

 

Over 50; most began as invited lectures to professional societies in literature, film, popular culture, and published in major scholarly journals and many have been reprinted in anthologies. The essays are on the novel, poetry, drama, film, history, philosophy, psychology, etc., and on Faulkner, Bronte, Wolfe, McCullers, Joyce, Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor, Hannah, Robert Penn Warren, Joyce Carol Oates, John Hawkes, William Gaddis, Nathaniel West, Ross MacDonald, James Dickey, Jules Romains, Conrad, Albee, Kurasawa, O,Neill, James Agee.

 

Literature Textbooks in Four Genres [12]: [Note: First 9 now published by Heinle and Heinle, formerly Harcourt]

A Pocketful of Essays in two volumes, [2000]

A Pocketful of Plays [1996]

A Pocketful of Plays II [1996]

A Pocketful of Poems [1996]

A Pocketful of Poems II [2005]

A Pocketful of Prose: Vintage II [1996]

A Pocketful of Prose: Vintage [1992]

A Pocketful of Prose: Contemporary [1992]

Eight Classic American Novels [1990]

The World of Fiction [Original publisher, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1990]

Studies in the Short Story [Originally published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1976, etc.: 4th and 5th editions with Virgil Scott, 6th alone]

Creative Choices: A Spectrum of Quality and Technique in Fiction [Scott, Foresman, 1975]

The Popular Culture Explosion [William C. Brown Publishers, 1972, with Ray B. Browne]. Among the first on this subject.

 

 

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS AND INTERVIEWS

Cassandra Singing–On and Off Key; or How not to Write a Play.”  Drama

Critique, 10 (Spring 1967), 58-70.  PI

“The Agnostic Priesthood.”  Discourse:  A Review of the Liberal Arts, 11

(Spring 1968), 171-82.

“The Floating Tower.”  The Register (Baton Rouge), 22 (1 August 1970), 16.

“The Compulsion to Tell a Story.”  Journal of Popular Culture, 5 (Fall

1971), 269-79.

“The Cartridge Belt.”  Massachusetts Review, 13 (Autumn 1972), 681-701. As memoir.

“Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh:  Notes for an Erotic Memoir of the

Forties.”  Film Journal, 2 (September 1972), 2-19.

“The Story-teller as Benevolent Con Man.”  Appalachian Heritage, 2 (Summer

1974), 70-77.

“Portrait of the Artist as a Bijou Usher.”  Proceedings of the Sixth

National Convention of the Popular Culture Association, Chicago, April

22-24, 1976.  Bowling Green, Ohio:  Bowling Green State University

Popular Press, 1976, pp. 94-112 (microfilm).

[David Madden discussing pp. 233-39 of Bijou.]  Cassette tape recording

in the Faculty Collection of the Louisiana Room, Louisiana State University

Library, n.d.

[My Credo.]  Center, No. 10 (November 1977), 37.

“Performing ‘The Singer’:  an Introduction to Oral Interpretation.”

Dramatics, 50 (September/October 1978), 28-32.

“Cassandra Singing as Novel, Play and Movie.”  Contemporary Literary

Scene II.  Ed. Frank N. Magill, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:  Salem

Press, 1979, pp. 181-93. Also adapted to radio commissioned by Earplay, not produced.

“Let Me Tell You the Story:  Transforming the Oral Tradition.”  Appalachian

Journal, 7 (Spring 1980), 210-29.

“Under the Pleasure-Dome.”  Southern Exposure, 9 (Summer 1981), 36-39.

“David Madden:  If a Writer’s Works Are His Life,” Contemporary Authors,

Autobiography Series, Gale Research, Volume 3, 185-2-6, 1987.

“My Brother, Sunshine” and “The Pond,” memoirs. Louisiana Review, v. 2,

Summer, 2000, 107-116.

 

Interviews with David Madden

1.  Greg Spaid 1967

2.  Sanford Pinsker, “A Conversation with David Madden.” Critique 15.3 (1973): 5-14. The interview was given in 1971.

3.  Allen Wier, “Interview with David Madden.” The Penny Dreadful 3 (Spring 1974).

4.  Ruth Laney, “Interview with David Madden.” Southern Review 11 (Jan. 1975):167-80. The interview took place in 1974.

5.  Samuel Prestridge, “An Interview with David Madden.” Mississippi Review 6.3 (1977): 9-12.

6.  Ray Jones, “An Interview with David Madden.” New Orleans Review 9.1 (Spring-Summer 1982): 29-35. The original interview was in 1980.

7.  William Parrill, “Telling It Again: A Conversation with David Madden.” Louisiana Literature Fall, 1984 reprinted in The Long Haul: Conversations with Southern Authors. New York: UP of America, 1994. 39-58.

8.  Jacqueline Jones. “Interview with David Madden.” WUOT-FM November 1985.

9.  Jeffrey J. Folks, “Interview with David Madden on Technique in Fiction.” Southern Quarterly 25.2 (Winter 1987): 24-38. The original interview was in  1984.

10.  “David Madden on Southern Literature.” Ed. A.B. Crowder. Writing in the Southern Tradition: Interviews with 5 Contemporary Authors. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990. 164-69

11.   “David Madden on Writing.” Ed. A.B. Crowder. Writing in the Southern Tradition: Interviews with 5 Contemporary Authors. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990. 170-82.

12.  Peggy Bach, “Interview with David Madden: ‘The Theatrical Image.’” The Southern Quarterly 33.2-3 (Winter-Spring 1995): 215-25. Rpt. Southern Novelists On Stage and Screen. Ed. David Madden, with George Garrett and Irving Malin. A special double issue of The Southern Quarterly (Winter-Spring 1995). The original interview was in 1994.

13.  Jeffrey J. Folks, “Outside Events: Inside the Imagination: An Interview with David Madden.” New Letters 64.7 (1997): 88-105.

14.  Randy Hendricks & James A. Perkins, David Madden on his Work: An Interview in David Madden: A writer for All Genres Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.

15.  James A. Perkins, David Madden on Creative Writing 2002

16.  Jeffrey J. Folks 2006

17.  William Parrill, Myriad Mindedness: An Interview with David Madden 2010

 

AWARDS, PRIZES, LECTURESHIPS

LSU Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award

American Association of State and Local Historians

Rockefeller Grant in Fiction [judged by Saul Bellow, Robert Penn Warren]

John Golden Fellowship in Playwriting, Yale Drama School

Raney Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers Conference

National Council on the Arts Award for Fiction [judged by Walker Percy, Hortense Calisher]

New Letters Award for Best Fiction Reading for Radio

New Letters, Jack Conroy Award for the Short Story

Pearl Setzer Deal Award for Religious Drama

University of Tennessee State Wide One Act Play Contest (three times)

Baton Rouge Little Theater National Playwriting Contest

University of Nebraska National Playwriting Contest

Gitlin Prize for best essay on Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe Society

 

ARCHIVES

 

David Madden, Special collections, University of Tennessee Libraries

David Madden Collection of Civil War Novels, Special Collections, Louisiana State University Libaries

 

REFERENCES

 

CRITICAL WRITING ON MADDEN”

Bamberger, William C. “Madden, (Jerry) David.” Contemporary Novelists, 4th ed., edited by D. L. Kirkpatrick. London: St. James, 1986. 555-58.

Garrett, George. “Cassandra Singing by David Madden.” Southern Excursions: Views on Southern Letters in My Time. Ed. James Conrad McKinley. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. 115-18.

Kirsch, Robert. “David Madden, Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties.” Lives, Works, and Transformations: A Quarter Century of Book Reviews and Essays. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1978. 80-81.

Pinsker, Sanford. “The Mixed Cords of David Madden’s Cassandra Singing. Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, Vol. 15, no. 2, 1973. 15-26. Rpt. In Sanford Pinsker, Between Two Worlds: The American Novel in the 1960’s. Troy, New York: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1980. 103-14.

Richards, Jeffrey H. “David Madden.” Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists o the South: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Eds. Robert Bain and Joseph M. Flora. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1994. 308-18.

Straub, Deborah A. “Madden, (Jerry) David.” Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series. Vol. 4, edited by Ann Evory. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981. 393-96.

Ward, William S. “David Madden.” A Literary History of Kentucky. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988.  401-03.

 

 

LINKS

 

https://davidmadden.net