Small TownGranville Hicks was one of America's most influential literary and social critics. Along with Malcolm Cowley, F. O. Matthiessen, Max Eastman, Alfred Kazin, and others, he shaped the cultural landscape of 20th century America. In 1946 Hicks published Small Town, a portrait of life in the rural crossroads of Grafton, N. Y., where he had moved after being fired from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for his left wing political views. In this book, he