Didn't see any mention of his recent death here, but I always thought he was a good critic and an interesting one, even though I often didn't agree with him (especially on Salinger). I have a copy of Love & Death in the American Novel which I keep meaning to read all the way through: the bits on Huck Finn are quite good.
The Salon interview they did right before he died was interesting: He said Martin Luther King was "one of the worst human beings I ever met"!
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)