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The article presents information on the book "A Bill of Rites, A Bill of Wrongs, A Bill of Goods," by Wright Morris. One of Morris' better essays in this book is called "Reflections on the Death of the Reader." Morris, after fourteen novels, all worthwhile, some of them excellent, tries to tell us how we are, not in fiction but in fact. If the death of the reader has stifled Morris' imagination, the loss is serious, all the more because Morris is a better diagnostician when he lies like a poet than when he tells the truths of the social scientist. In his novels, Morris likes to take a small observed object, idea or phrase and let the imagination play with it.