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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James CampbellPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780520252370ISBN 10: 0520252373 Pages: 251 Publication Date: 07 July 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments PART I NEW YORK NEW YORKERS 1. Sunshine and Shadows: AProfile of John Updike 2. Updike's Village Sex 3. William Maxwell's Lives 4. Notes from a Small Island: AProfile 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: AProfile 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 The Island Affair: Richard Wright's Unpublished Last Novel 11.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: AProfile of Amiri Baraka PART III SYNCOPATIONS 15. High Peak Haikus: AProfile 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: AProfile of Edmund White 20. To Beat the Bible: AProfile 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 TonguesReviews'Syncopations' should interest any observer of postwar American letters. --New York Times Book Review [Campbell's] best pieces deftly and economically capture the essence of their subjects, measuring the particular 'syncopations' that distinguish their work. --Times Literary Supplement (Tls) The object is neither to titillate nor to shock -- though certain of Mr. Campbell's profiles do both -- but to illumine. And this they accomplish splendidly. --New York Sun 'Syncopations' should interest any observer of postwar American letters. -- Sam Munson New York Times Book Review [Campbell's] best pieces deftly and economically capture the essence of their subjects, measuring the particular 'syncopations' that distinguish their work. -- Bharat Tandon Times Literary Supplement (TLS) The object is neither to titillate nor to shock - though certain of Mr. Campbell's profiles do both - but to illumine. And this they accomplish splendidly. -- Eric Ormsby New York Sun 'Syncopations' should interest any observer of postwar American letters. -- Sam Munson New York Times Book Review 20080907 [Campbell's] best pieces deftly and economically capture the essence of their subjects, measuring the particular 'syncopations' that distinguish their work. -- Bharat Tandon Times Literary Supplement (TLS) 20080808 The object is neither to titillate nor to shock - though certain of Mr. Campbell's profiles do both - but to illumine. And this they accomplish splendidly. -- Eric Ormsby New York Sun 20080903 Author InformationJames Campbell writes a weekly column for the Times Literary Supplement and is the author of This Is The Beat Generation, Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin, and Exiled in Paris. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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