Alfred Kazin's "Bright Book of Life" (1973)

Boston, Massachusetts, US: Little, Brown & Company (book, essay), 1973.
8.5" x 5.75" x 1.25", 334 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-316-48418-0.

Bright Book of Life: American Novelists & Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer by Alfred Kazin, a book of literature essays published in hardcover by Little, Brown & Company (Boston, Massachusetts, US) in 1973. Jacket design by Adelson & Eichinger.

This includes a section on William S. Burroughs nestled into a chapter on "The Absurd as a Contemporary Style: Ellison to Pynchon", at pages 262-270.

Not in Maynard & Miles.
Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender.

Contents: 

• Acknowledgments
• 1. A Dream of Order: Hemingway
• 2. The Secret of the South: Faulkner to Percy
• 3. The Decline of War: Mailer to Vonnegut
• 4. Professional Observers: Cozzens to Updike
• 5. The Earthly City of the Jews: Bellow to Singer
• 6. Cassandras: Porter to Oates
• 7. The Imagination of Fact: Capote to Mailer
• 8. Absurdity as a Contemporary Style: Ellison to Pynchon
• 9. A Personal Sense of Time: Nabokov and Other Exiles
• Index