The ink trade : selected journalism, 1961-1993 / Anthony Burgess ; edited by Will Carr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993, author.

Contributor:

Carr, Will, editor.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Reviews.

Books.

Criticism.

Authorship.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Reviews.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xvii, 274 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2018.

Summary:

"Despite his modest claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously prolific journalist. During his life he published two substantial collections of journalism, Urgent Copy (1968) and Homage to Qwert Yuiop (1986); a posthumous collection of occasional essays, One Man's Chorus, was published in 1998. These collections are now out of print, and Burgess's journalism, a key part of his prodigious output, has fallen into neglect. The Ink Trade is a brilliant new selection of his reviews and articles, some savage, some crucial in establishing new writers, new tastes and trends. Between 1959 and his death in 1993 Burgess contributed to newspapers and periodicals around the world: he was provocative, informative, entertaining, extravagant, and always readable."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Poetry for a Tiny Room p. 1

Spring's Fruits in Autumn p. 3

The Corruption of the Exotic p. 6

Why, This is Hell p. 13

On the End of Every Fork p. 16

Into the Mass Mangle p. 18

Bitter-sweet Savour p. 23

The Big Daddy of the Beats p. 25

The Seventeenth Novel p. 27

Here Parla Man Marcommunish p. 32

The Book is Not for Reading p. 35

The Comedy of Ultimate Truths p. 39

Europe's Day of the Dead p. 42

Surprise from the Grave p. 46

Last Exit to Brooklyn p. 48

A Good Read p. 53

Bless Thee, Bottom? p. 57

Like Mr Priestley, Enjoying It p. 63

The Waste Land p. 68

My Life and Times p. 79

On Lengthy Matters p. 83

Last of the Literary Dandies p. 86

Five-Finger Exercises p. 89

Creeping Towards Salvation p. 92

A Very Blasphemous Fallacy p. 96

Glittering Prizes p. 99

A Talent to Remember p. 102

Jong in Triumph p. 104

Partridge in a Word Tree p. 108

A Movie that Changed my Life p. 112

By-products of the Ink Trade p. 118

Pilgrimage p. 121

Finks and Winchells p. 125

The School of Jesuits p. 129

Last Embers of Modernism p. 132

Medieval Sherlock p. 135

The Lords of Limit p. 138

Locutions of Sex and Death p. 142

Why I Write p. 149

Still Life p. 152

The Anachronist Strikes Back p. 155

Spirit of Cervantes p. 158

Defector as Hero p. 161

Where Sex Meets Self-Improvement p. 164

The Academic Critic and the Living Writer p. 168

The Master of Erudite Silence p. 173

Verbal Subversions p. 177

Eye of a Stranger p. 182

Wilde with all Regret p. 185

Mr Gibbon and the Huns p. 189

The Literature Industry p. 196

The Man Who Invented Himself p. 200

Bunn in the Oven p. 205

A Strong Whiff of Kif from Tangier p. 208

The Life of Graham Greene p. 211

Joyce as Novelist p. 217

Can Art be Immoral? p. 231

Getting the Language Right p. 246

Stop the Clock on Violence p. 250

Confessions of the Hack Trade p. 254.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1784103926

9781784103927

OCLC:

1006306152