Reinhart at Home

One of America’s last literary lions has stopped writing novels, and hardly anybody has noticed.

“Around age 85, I did write a 24th novel, really more of a novella,” Thomas Berger tells National Review, “but when several admirers of my other books read the MS and either said nothing or produced a polite mumble, I decided to shelve it with the collection of my papers at the library of Boston University, there perhaps one day to be found by some graduate student prowling in search of a forgotten scribbler for a dissertation.”