Editors : the best from five decades / [edited by] Saul Bellow & Keith Botsford ; compiled by Keith Botsford ; assisted by Sassan Tabatabai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bellow, Saul, editor.

Botsford, Keith, 1928-2018, editor.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Genre:

Literature, Modern.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 1119 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; [New Milford], Conn. : Toby Press, 2001.

Summary:

In over, 1,100 pages of first-class writing, the reader will find works by Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, John Berryman, Keith Botsford, G.V. Desani, Herbert Gold, Mark Harris, Arthur Miller, S.J. Perelman, Philip O'Connor, and many more. Plus fascinating, unseen writing by D.H. Lawrence, Louis Guilloux and Victor Hugo. Little in this anthology has been published before in book form.

Contents:

On the Facts / Keith Botsford 3

Great and Not So Great Expectations, Noble Savage 3 / Saul Bellow 7

Hidden Within Technology's Empire, a Republic of Letters The New York Times, 1999 / Saul Bellow 13

Dialogue: As Seen from the Ground, ANON / Saul Bellow, Keith Botsford 19

Arias

Pains and Gains, Noble Savage 1 / Saul Bellow 35

The Seeing Eye, Noble Savage 2 / Anonymous 39

Doctor of Science, Patient of Poetry, Noble Savage 4 / Stephen Spender 43

The 11:59 News, Noble Savage 4 / Saul Bellow 47

Obit on a Witness, Noble Savage 4 / Keith Botsford 49

Mr. Wollix gets an Honorary Degree, ANON / Saul Bellow 51

Nixon and Hayakawa, ANON / Mark Harris 57

White House and Artists, Noble Savage 5 / Saul Bellow 61

The Poor Man's Civil Defense Manual, Noble Savage / Felix Pollak 65

A Few Notes on the Changing World, Noble Savage 5 / Philip O'Connor 69

View from Intensive Care, The Republic of Letters 1 / Saul Bellow 73

Graven Images, The Republic of Letters 2 / Saul Bellow 83

Last Journal

or, Philippics?, The Republic of Letters 2 / Philip O'Connor 89

Real Life, The Republic of Letters 2 / James Wood 95

Of Cars and the Man, The Republic of Letters 3 / Martin Amis 99

Objective Correlative, The Republic of Letters 7 / Julia Copeland 105

Archives

Ramblings in Cheapside, Noble Savage 1 / Samuel Butler 113

The Portrait of Maurice Magnus, Noble Savage 2 / D. H. Lawrence 125

The Executioner, ANON / Joseph de Maistre 187

The Interment of Napoleon, The Republic of Letters 4 / Victor Hugo 195

Investigations

Notes from the Ground Up, Noble Savage 1 / Harold Rosenberg 215

Critic and Common Reader, Noble Savage 2 / George P. Elliott 223

Seven Numbered Notes, Noble Savage 3 / Harold Rosenberg 239

On Being a Poet in America, Noble Savage 5 / Louis Simpson 245

The Public Art of Crisis in the Suburbs of Hell, Noble Savage 5 / Herbert Blau 255

A Dark Mirror: Reflections on Dementia, The Republic of Letters 2 / Raymond Tallis 269

Lives

A Year of Disgrace, Noble Savage 3 / Josephine Herbst 285

Memories of Warsaw, Noble Savage 4 / Antoni Slominski 317

Mozart, Bostonia, Spring 1992 / Saul Bellow 341

With Malice Aforethought, Noble Savage 5 / G. V. Desani 355

Sulla and the Satyr, ANON / Rudolf Kassner 361

What's This Cat's Story? Noble Savage 3 / Seymour Krim 367

Ralph Ellison in Tivoli, The Republic of Letters 3 / Saul Bellow 389

Stoney Knows How: Life as a Tattoo Artist, The Republic of Letters 6 / Leonard St. Clair, Alan Govenar 395

The Starched Blue Sky of Spain, Noble Savage 1 / Josephine Herbst 409

Saul Steinberg, The Republic of Letters 7 / Saul Bellow 444

Poems

Life Cycle of Common Man, Noble Savage 1 / Howard Nemerov 457

The Advance on the Retreat, Noble Savage 4 / Oonagh Lahr 459

Count Nulin, Noble Savage 4 / Alexander Pushkin 461

Message from the City, Noble Savage 5 / Anthony Hecht 473

What An Old Man Has Left, ANON / Cesare Pavese 477

Winterreise, The Republic of Letters 7 / Michael Hulse 479

Texts

Cowboys, Noble Savage 1 / Edward Hoagland 487

Please Don't Kill Anything, Noble Savage 1 / Arthur Miller 501

The Scene, Noble Savage 1 / Wright Morris 507

The Self-Made Brain Surgeon, Noble Savage 1 / Mark Harris 521

Friendship, Noble Savage 2 / Louis Guilloux 537

The Annealing, Noble Savage 2 / Sol Yurick 567

An American Fiesta, Noble Savage 2 / Dan Wakefield 585

Copperskin, Noble Savage 3 / Jara Ribnikar 597

Thursday Out, Noble Savage 3 / John Berryman 613

Under the Rose, Noble Savage 3 / Thomas Pynchon 623

Death in Miami Beach, Noble Savage 3 / Herbert Gold 651

Mephisto's Daughter, Noble Savage 4 / G. V. Desani 667

Palante, Noble Savage 4 / Louis Guilloux 671

Oedipus-Schmoedipus, Noble Savage 4 / Louis Gallo 691

An Angelic Visit on Via dei Martiri, Noble Savage 4 / Elemire Zolla 711

Blackdamp, Noble Savage 4 / Robert Coover 741

A Little Bit of the Old Slap and Tickle, Noble Savage 5 / John Hawkes 755

Dad Among the Troglodytes, or Show Me a Gypsy and I'll Show You a Nut, Noble Savage 5 / Nelson Algren 761

Aronesti, Noble Savage 5 / Bette Howland 767

Don Alonso Quixano, Lineal Descendant.., Noble Savage 5 / Anthony Kerrigan 781

Glimpse at a Jockey, Noble Savage 5 / Arthur Miller 789

Hitler's Mother, Noble Savage 5 / Sydor Rey 793

The Line of Fire, Noble Savage 5 / Leon Rooke 811

Diderot, Galiani, Lichtenberg: Three Texts, ANON / Meyer Schapiro 877

Pocket Elephants, ANON / Christopher Middleton, Christoph Meckel 889

A Jewish Savant, Bostonia, November 1989 / Umberto Saba 909

Distortions or Variations on the Theme of Broca, Bostonia, March 1990 / John Auerbach 919

A Little Learning, Bostonia, May 1990 / Bette Howland 939

Strictly from Hunger (A Torpid Serial), Bostonia, June 1990 / S. J. Perelman 957

Grace Notes, Bostonia, September 1990 / Conall Ryan 971

The Second Life of Gioacchino Rossini, Bostonia, Fall 1992 / Keith Botsford 985

Two Old People, Bostonia, Spring 1993 / Silvio d'Arzo 1011

Lighea, or the Siren, Bostonia, Spring 1994 / Guiseppe Tomase di Lampedusa 1023

My Father in the Mirror, The Republic of Letters 3 / Karel Logher 1045

All Marbles Still Accounted For, The Republic of Letters 4 / Saul Bellow 1055

The Seduction of My Sister, The Republic of Letters 5 / Murray Bail 1065

Prairie, The Republic of Letters 6 / Salvatore Scibona 1081.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Editors.

ISBN:

1902881354

9781902881355

1902881362

9781902881362

OCLC:

46645128