Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark.
Title:
Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark.
Author:
Campbell, James.
ISBN:
9780520941083
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: NEW YORK NEW YORKERS -- 1. Sunshine and Shadows: A Profile of John Updike -- 2. Updike's Village Sex -- 3. William Maxwell's Lives -- 4. Notes from a Small Island: A Profile of Shirley Hazzard -- 5. Love, Truman: Capote's Letters and Stories -- 6. Franzen, Oprah, and High Art -- 7. Drawing Pains: A Profile of Art Spiegelman -- 8. Listening in the Dark: A Profile of William Styron -- PART II: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE -- 9. I Heard It through the Grapevine: James Baldwin and the FBI -- 10. The Island Affair: Richard Wright's Unpublished Last Novel -- 11. The Man Who Cried: John A. Williams -- 12. All That Jive: Stanley Crouch -- 13. Love Lost: Toni Morrison -- 14. The Rhetoric of Rage: A Profile of Amiri Baraka -- PART III: SYNCOPATIONS -- 15. High Peak Haikus: A Profile of Gary Snyder -- 16. Between Moving Air and Moving Ocean: Thom Gunn and Gary Snyder -- 17. Was That a Real Poem?: Robert Creeley -- 18. Fifty Years of "Howl" -- 19. Personal/Political: A Profile of Edmund White -- 20. To Beat the Bible: A Profile of J. P. Donleavy -- 21. The Making of a Monster: Alexander Trocchi -- 22. Travels with RLS -- Coda: Boswell and Mrs. Miller -- A Memoir of Two Tongues.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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