A copy of Theodore Dreiser’s The Genius, edited by Clare Virginia Eby and finally available for the first time in its original version, just landed on my desk. The official publication date is February 11, 2008, but it will be available soon.

“This is a superb edition: skillfully edited, fully annotated, usefully contextualized. We have been given a new and almost entirely unknown version of The Genius—the text as originally conceived by Dreiser. It now demands our attention and close study.” —James L. W. West III, general editor of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition