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“... death in December 1940, The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western. But not because he was writing, in Matthew Bruccoli’s words, ‘a novel about the last American frontier, where immigrants and sons of immigrants pursued and defined the American dream’. This is just the novel he wasn’t writing. Monroe Stahr, the hero of the work, is a movie producer in ...”

“... work? What can MacShane hope to add to the full documentation of Finnish Farr (O’Hara, 1974) and Matthew Bruccoli (The O’Hara Concern, 1975)? Certainly a degree of neutrality. Professor Bruccoli’s book is a ‘critical biography’ dedicated to proving that O’Hara was a great artist shamefully ignored by the ...”

“... not a fair copy, survives in the Princeton University Library (and in a 1973 facsimile, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli). According to James West, editor of Trimalchio, the typescript of 27 October constitutes a completed version: ‘Naturally he expected to see proofs, and surely he planned to do some revising on them, but ...”

“... Nabokov liked to write standing up (‘Piles,’ he told a fellow-teacher at Cornell, who thought it might be some short cut to creativity), and his letters reflect that inflexible posture, being all backbone and no upholstery. But prize them we must, for bringing us this otherwise impregnably stylish man’s first, unscripted thoughts; letters at least he wrote and sent, without – that we hear of – asking for them back, to groom them for permanent annexation to his oeuvre ...”

“... the challenge of Vidal’s cagey wit by bearing down even harder, giving him the full Leon Edel-Matthew Bruccoli filing-cabinet treatment. For years Vidal has made fun of ‘scholar-squirrels’ – myopic trivia buffs who comb the lives of Hemingway and Fitzgerald hoping to find the one itty-bitty piece of factual lint no one else has – and here ...”

“... and in the past five years alone three biographers have seen fit to tell it yet again. In 1981, Matthew J. Bruccoli, archetype of the preposterously prolific modern American literary scholar (in the past decade or so, he has not only collected Fitzgerald’s letters, screenplays, notebooks and minor stories, but written ...”

“... the first to chart Gatsby’s world. The indefatigable scholar of American writers of the 1920s, Matthew J. Bruccoli, did it a dozen years ago in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’: A Literary Reference. There, Bruccoli gathered material as a field marshal gathers an ...”