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1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) |
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text file |
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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 The Island Affair: Richard Wright's Unpublished Last Novel. |
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11. The Man Who Cried: John A. Williams12. 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. |
| 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 Ginsbe. |
| Local Note |
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Campbell, James, 1951-
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Campbell, James, 1951- |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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20th century |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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National Book Committee. |
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Beats (Persons)
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Intellectual life. |
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Authors, Scottish -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, Scottish. |
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Biographies.
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Beats (Persons) |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Syncopations Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008. 9780520252363 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2008003978 |
| ISBN |
9780520941083 ebook |
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052094108X |
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9780520252363 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520252370 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520252365 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520252373 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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