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  • Dear Mr. Beckett: Letters from the Publisher

    The Samuel Beckett File: Correspondence, Interviews, Photos

    de Barney Rosset ...
    Preface by Paul Auster • Foreword by Edward BeckettEdited by Lois Oppenheim • Curated by Astrid Myers Rosset“You know, Barney, I think my writing days are over ” Beckett writes in 1954 âwhen most of his output was still ahead of him.ã And later, “Sick of all this old vomit and despair more and more of ever being able to puke again. In a world where writers switch publishers at the first shake of a ... Leer más

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  • Rosset

    My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship

    de Barney Rosset ...
    Genet…Beckett…Burroughs…Miller…Ionesco, Oe, Duras. Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Hubert Selby Jr. and John Rechy. The legendary film I Am Curious (Yellow). The books that assaulted the fort of propriety that was the United States in the 1950s and ’60s, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Tropic of Cancer. The Evergreen Review. Victorian erotica.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X. A bombing, a sit-in, ... Leer más

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  • From the Third Eye

    The Evergreen Review Film Reader

    In this first collection of film writing from Evergreen Review, the legendary publication's important contributions to film culture are available in a single volume. Featuring such legendary writers as Nat Hentoff, Norman Mailer, Parker Tyler, and Amos Vogel, the book presents writing on the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ousmane Sembene, Andy Warhol, and others and offers incisive ... Leer más

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    The Life of Charlie Chaplin

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    Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world's first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than ... Leer más

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  • Eminent Outlaws

    The Gay Writers Who Changed America

    This "standard text of the defining era of gay literati" tells the cultural history of the interconnected lives of the 20th century's most influential gay writers ( Philadelphia Inquirer).In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant terrible, whose finely wrought fiction and nonfiction ... Leer más

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  • Avid Reader

    A Life

    Winner of the Anne M. Sperber PrizeA spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time.After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and ... Leer más

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  • A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

    True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

    de Tom Nissley ...
    A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it ... Leer más

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  • Too Brief a Treat

    The Letters of Truman Capote

    de Truman Capote ...
    Series series Vintage International
    The private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled here for the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke, provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most colorful and fascinating literary figures.Capote was an inveterate letter writer. He wrote letters as he spoke: emphatically, spontaneously, and passionately. Spanning more than four decades, ... Leer más

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  • The Guest List

    How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication—from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball

    de Ethan Mordden ...
    From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Manhattan was America's beacon of sophistication. From the theatres of Broadway to the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel to tables at the Stork Club, intelligence and wit were the twinned coins of the realm. Alexander Woolcott, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, the Lunts and Helen Hayes ... Leer más

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  • The Penguin Modern Classics Book

    de Henry Eliot ...
    The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers.This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and ... Leer más

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  • Great Short Books

    A Year of Reading—Briefly

    Series series Great Short Books
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  • A Quote A Day for Writers: 365 Quotations on the Art, Craft, Humor, Heartbreak, Joys & Magic of Writing

    A Quote A Day for Writers

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