St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Malamud's New Novel"
by Harry T. Moore, St. Louis, MO
October 15, 1961
"In the opening passage of this book, one S. Levin, from New York, arrives in Cascadia (which is obviously the state of Oregon) to become an instructor in English in what he had thought was a liberal arts college, but which to his disappointment proves to be a technical school."
