Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark / James Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, James, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campbell, James, 1951-.

Campbell, James.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

Beats (Persons).

Authors, Scottish--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Scottish.

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Updike, William Maxwell, Truman Capote, and Jonathan Franzen. Continuing his longterm engagement with African American authors, he offers an account of his legal battle with the FBI over James Baldwin's file and a new profile of Amiri Baraka. He also focuses on the Beat poets Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg, as well as writers such as Edmund White and Thom Gunn. Campbell's concluding essay on his childhood in Scotland gracefully connects the book's autobiographical dots.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I. New York New Yorkers

PART II. Through the Grapevine

PART III. Syncopations

CODA. Boswell and Mrs. Miller

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

9780520941083

052094108X

OCLC:

847616936