Understanding Alice Adams (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2019).
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context, edited with an introduction by Bryant Mangum (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013; paperback 2015).
Best Early Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited with an introduction by Bryant Mangum (New York: Random House, 2005).
A Fortune Yet: Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Stories (New York: Garland, 1991).
How to Prepare for the Medical College Admission Test (New York: Barron’s, 2008). Co-author, 11th edition.
Chapters and Essays in Books:
“Preface,” in F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context, ed. Bryant Mangum, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. xxiv-xxvi.
“Letters,” in F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context, ed. Bryant Mangum, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 24-33.
“Fitzgerald’s Southern Narrative: The Tarleton, Georgia Stories,” in F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context, ed. Bryant Mangum, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 154-66.
“Altering the Dresses: The Two Versions of Irwin Shaw’s ‘The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,'” Resources for American Literary Study, Volume 33 (2010), 171-204.
“The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,” Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 57-78.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald: United States,” Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Paul Schellinger,
London and Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1998, pp.416-417.
“The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald,” Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Paul Schellinger, London and Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1998, pp. 514-515.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novelist and Short Story Writer,” Reader’s Guide to Literature in English, ed. Hawkins-Dady, Fitzroy-Dearborn, London, 1995, pp. 293-296.
“Fate and the Work Ethic in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Bowl,'” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Neglected Stories, ed. Jackson R. Bryer. University of Missouri Press, 1995, pp. 104 -117.
“Jamaica Kincaid,” in Fifty Caribbean Writers, ed. Daryl Dance. Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 255-63. Reprinted in part in Short Stories for Students, ed. Tim Akers and Jerry Moore. Gale, 1999, pp. 363-4. Full text available online at questia.com.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald,” The Critical Survey of Long Fiction, ed. Frank Magill. Salem Press, 1983, pp. 953-67.
“Ernest Hemingway,” in The Critical Survey of Long Fiction, ed. Frank Magill. Salem Press, 1983, pp. 1337-49.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald,”in The Critical Survey of Short Fiction, ed. Frank Magill. Salem Press, 1982, pp. 1368-77.
“Ernest Hemingway,” in The Critical Survey of Short Fiction, ed. Frank Magill. Salem Press, 1982, pp. 1621-28.
Articles, Stories, Reviews, Notes:
“Truth Teller Spotlight” (Interview), Broad Street (December 28, 2017). Online at
http://broadstreetonline.org/2017/12/truth-teller-spotlight-bryant-mangum-belle-lettrist-scholar-storyteller/
“An Affair of Youth,” Broad Street. 2.2 (Spring/Summer 2016), 68-81.
“Teaching Tarleton: A Roundtable (Preface),” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Volume 12 (2014), 143-145
“When the Credits Roll: The Making of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context,” The Fitzgerald Society Newsletter, Volume 22 (December 2012), 8-16. (Published January 2013)
“The Shelf Life of ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,'” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Volume 7 Issue 1 (2009).
“Alice Adams,” Encyclopedia Virginia (2009). Online at http://staging.encyclopediavirginia.org/Adams_Alice_1926-1999
“Epic Grandeur, Eminence Grise: Remembering Matthew J. Bruccoli,” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Volume 6 Issue 2 (September 2007-2008). Online at http://www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/assets/BryantMangum.pdf
“Visions and Revisions of Irwin Shaw’s ‘The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,'” The CEA Critic, Volume 70, Number 1 (Fall 2007), 80-84. (Published 2008)
“Echoes of Arcady: F. Scott Fitzgerald and It’s a Wonderful Life,” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, volume 5 (Fall 2006), 54-64. (Published 2008)
“There’s Something About that Dress,” The Fitzgerald Newsletter, Volume 16 (Fall 2006), 14-17. (Published January 2007)
“The Palms” (short story), The South Carolina Review, Volume 36, Number 1 (Fall 2003), 30-37.
“Recalling My Mentors,” VCU Teaching 1998.
“The Teacher’s Yoknapatawpha,” VCU Teaching 1997.
“Thoughts on Teaching,” SAADE Newsletter (University of Florida), Fall 1994, 4-5.
“The World as Burning House: Ann Beattie and the Buddha,” Notes on Contemporary Literature, 1990.
“The Hemingway Code & Ten-Word Telegrams,” Lost Generation Journal, IX (Spring-Summer 1989), 9-10. Adapted from “Ernest Hemingway,” Critical Survey of Short Fiction, pp. 1621-8.
“An Approach to Teaching the Research Paper,” Exercise Exchange: A Journal for Teachers of English, 27 (Fall 1982), 17-20.
“The Price Was High: The Last Uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald” (review-essay), Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 11 (1979), 389-97.
“Cat’s Cradle‘s Jonah-John and the Garden of Ice-Nine,” Notes on Contemporary Literature (May 1979), 9-11.
“The Latter Days of Henry Fleming,” American Notes & Queries (Fall 1976), 136-38.
“Crane’s Red Badge and Zola’s,” American Literary Realism 1870-1910, IX (3), 1976, 279-280.
“Shakespeare’s Tragedy of the Crazy Child,” ExerciseExchange: A Journal for Teachers of English, 21 (Fall 1976), 3-8.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Ledger: A Facsimile of the Manuscripts” (review), Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 6 (1974), 253-6.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Study of the Stories” (review), Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 4 (1972), 411-15.
“The Reception of `Dearly Beloved,'” Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 2 (1970), 241-44.
Miscellaneous:
“Zelda,” Playbill for The Last Flapper
“Characteristics of Good Writing” from How to Prepare for the Medical College Admission Test, Barron’s, 1997, p. 256.
“Growing Up in Darlington,” The News & Press, Darlington, South Carolina (15 March 2001), B-1.