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Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark /
This compulsively readable collection of profiles and essays by James Campbell, tied together by a beguiling autobiographical thread, proffers unique observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s period. Campbell considers writers associated with the New Yorker magazine, including John Updik...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: NEW YORK NEW YORKERS; 1. Sunshine and Shadows: A Profile of John Updike; 2. Updike's Village Sex; 3. William Maxwell's Lives; 4. Notes from a Small Island: A Profile of Shirley Hazzard; 5. Love, Truman: Capote's Letters and Stories; 6. Franzen, Oprah, and High Art; 7. Drawing Pains: A Profile of Art Spiegelman; 8. Listening in the Dark: A Profile of William Styron; PART II: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE; 9. I Heard It through the Grapevine: James Baldwin and the FBI; 10. The Island Affair: Richard Wright's Unpublished Last Novel.
- 11. The Man Who Cried: John A. Williams12. All That Jive: Stanley Crouch; 13. Love Lost: Toni Morrison; 14. The Rhetoric of Rage: A Profile of Amiri Baraka; PART III: SYNCOPATIONS; 15. High Peak Haikus: A Profile of Gary Snyder; 16. Between Moving Air and Moving Ocean: Thom Gunn and Gary Snyder; 17. Was That a Real Poem?: Robert Creeley; 18. Fifty Years of "Howl"; 19. Personal/Political: A Profile of Edmund White; 20. To Beat the Bible: A Profile of J.P. Donleavy; 21. The Making of a Monster: Alexander Trocchi; 22. Travels with RLS; Coda: Boswell and Mrs. Miller; A Memoir of Two Tongues.