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Famous people I have known / Ed McClanahan.
LIBRA - Special PS3563.C3397 Z465 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McClanahan, Ed.
- Series:
- Kentucky voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McClanahan, Ed.
- McClanahan, Ed--Friends and associates.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Friends and associates.
- English teachers--United States--Biography.
- English teachers.
- United States.
- Kentucky--Biography.
- Kentucky.
- Friendship.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2003.
- Summary:
- Ed McClanahan's hilarious classic introduces us to writers and revolutionaries, hippies and honkies, gurus and go-go girls, barkeeps and barflies, as well as Carlos Toadvine, aka Little Enis, the All-American Left-Handed Upside-down Guitar Player, among the characters he has encountered in thirty peripatetic years of wandering the fringes of the academic and literary worlds -- "working the Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing circuit" -- from his native Kentucky to the West Coast and back again.
- Contents:
- Introducing ... Jimmy Sacca?
- The Day the Lampshades Breathed
- A Misdemeanor against Nature
- Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age!
- Ken Kesey, Jean Genet, the Revolution, et Moi
- Little Enis: An Ode on the Intimidations of Mortality
- Drowning in the Land of Sky-Blue Waters
- Tune Out, Turn In, Drop Off.
- ISBN:
- 081319069X
- 9780813190693
- OCLC:
- 52554217
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