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Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark / James Campbell.
LIBRA PS221 .C33 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, James, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature--African American authors.
- New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Intellectual life.
- Beats (Persons).
- Campbell, James, 1951-.
- Campbell, James.
- Authors, Scottish--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Scottish.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 226 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- This compulsively readable collection of profiles and essays by James Campbell, tied together by a beguiling autobiographical thread, proffers Campbell's unique observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s. The book considers writers associated with the New Yorker magazine, including John Updike, Truman Capote, and Jonathan Franzen; African American writers, offering up an account of Campbell's legal battle with the FBI over James Baldwin's file and a new profile of Amiri Baraka; and "outsider" poets and writers such as Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Edmund White, and Thom Gunn. Campbell's concluding essay about his childhood in Scotland gracefully connects the book's autobiographical dots.
- Contents:
- Sunshine and shadows: a profile of John Updike
- Updike's village sex
- William Maxwell's lives
- Notes from a small island: a profile of Shirley Hazzard
- Love, Truman: Capote's letters and stories
- Franzen, Oprah, and high art
- Drawing pains: a profiles of Art Spiegelman
- Listening in the dark: a profile of William Styron
- I heard it through the grapevine: James Baldwin and the FBI
- The island affair: Richard Wright's unpublished last novel
- The man who came who cried: John A. Williams
- All that jive: Stanley Crouch
- Love lost: Toni Morrison
- The rhetoric of rage: a profile of Amiri Baraka
- High peak haikus: a profile of Gary Snyder
- Between moving air and moving ocean: Thom Gunn and Gary Snyder
- Was that a real poem?: Robert Creeley
- Fifty years of "Howl"
- Personal/political : a profile of Edmund White
- To beat the bible : a profile of J.P. Donleavy
- The making of a monster: Alexander Trocckhi
- Travels with RLS.
- ISBN:
- 9780520252363
- 0520252365
- 9780520252370
- 0520252373
- OCLC:
- 178269092
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