The four initial essays in the Specific Writers and Works section display Pizers critical style in its characteristic varied and incisive form. The initial essay an exercise in crossdiscipline analysis discusses the ways specific works by Crane Dreiser and Steinbeck reveal their authors response to specific contemporary visual art works and reportage. The seconds offers a novel way of interpreting the naturalism of London archetypal story To Light a Fire by pointing out the weaknesses in Lee Cl