Download or read book Trying It Out in America written by Richard Poirier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title of his new book suggests, Richard Poirier believes that the United States has been uncommonly hospitable to literary and artistic experimentation, to innovation and daring. Just as the nation likes to imagine itself as always in a state of becoming and renewal, some of its greatest writers have seemed willing to accept a measure of neglect during their lifetimes in return for the promise of posthumous triumph.