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Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark
James Campbell
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Description for Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark
Paperback. A collection of profiles and essays, which proffers observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s period. It considers writers associated with the "New Yorker" magazine, including John Updike, William Maxwell, Truman Capote, and Jonathan Franzen. Num Pages: 251 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
Number of Pages
251
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520252370
SKU
V9780520252370
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About James Campbell
James 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.
Reviews for Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark
"'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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more