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Namedropping : mostly literary memoirs / Richard Elman.
LIBRA PS3555.L628 Z47 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elman, Richard M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elman, Richard M--Friends and associates.
- Elman, Richard M.
- Friends and associates.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, American.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- These are Richard Elman's recollections of the various, mostly literary celebrities he encountered during his four decades as a working writer and journalist -- among them Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, Faye Dunaway, Hunter S. Thompson, and other important artists and writers who were Elman's teachers and, occasionally, adversaries. Engagingly written and never superficial, these portraits and anecdotes in many cases strike to the center of each subject's art. To many readers, these persons are just "names"; Elman brings them to life while never simplifying or overdramatizing their work.
- Contents:
- Preface: Post Time ix
- Part I. In Addition to George Spelvin
- Motke Kaplan 3
- Alexander Kerensky 7
- Yvor Winters, Thom Gunn, and Others 15
- Aldous Huxley 23
- Tillie Olsen 27
- Dan Jacobson 35
- David Lamson 39
- Bashevis 47
- William Bronk 59
- Bernard Malamud 67
- Part II. New York, N.Y.
- Sy Krim 75
- Wally Markfield and Others 79
- Matthew Josephson 81
- Max Margulis 85
- John Hall Wheelock 87
- Walker Evans 89
- Randolf Wicker 93
- Willard Trask 97
- Herbert Biberman 99
- William Butler 105
- Morris Renek 113
- Alfred Kreymborg 117
- Doug Ward: Peers and Tears 121
- Robert Lowell: A Life Study 125
- Hunter S. Thompson 133
- Saul Newton: Newton's Laws 137
- Richard Price 145
- Fred Busch 149
- Joel Leiber 151
- Jules Olitski 155
- Lucinda Childs 161
- Allen Ginsberg and Others 165
- Lore Segal 169
- Elie Wiesel 173
- Charlie's Bird 177
- Part III. Relaxing at the Touro
- Elman: The Man and the Masks
- A Night in Evanston 185
- Spooks 191
- Studs Terkel 193
- Nuruddin Farrar 197
- W. H. Auden 201
- Little Richard Penniman 203
- Grace Paley 205
- Gil Sorrentino 207
- C. P. Snow: The Name of the Game 211
- Stanley Edgar Hyman 215
- Faye Dunaway 219
- Louise Varese 223
- Pete Martin 229
- George William Booth 235
- Lyndon Johnson 239
- Bill Kennedy 243
- Roberto Sosa 247
- Susan Meiselas 251
- Ernesto Cardenal 259
- Tomas Borge: "Falta Nada!" 267
- Tears 271
- Afterword: Homage to Isaac Babel 275.
- ISBN:
- 0791438791
- 0791438805
- OCLC:
- 37928551
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