Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark / / James Campbell

• Autore: Campbell James <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/97471
• Soggetto topico: American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; American literature - African American authors - History and criticism; Beat generation; Authors, Scottish - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. New York New Yorkers -- PART II. Through the Grapevine -- PART III. Syncopations -- CODA. Boswell and Mrs. Miller
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Syncopations
• ISBN: 0-520-94108-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818570603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II