Syncopations
James Campbell
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University of California Press
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
jonathan franzen, jp donleavy, fbi, career, autobiography, 20th century american culture, stanley crouch, amiri baraka, retrospective, toni morrison, 20th century american literature, james baldwin, william maxwell, art spiegelman, shirley hazzard, new yorker magazine, thom gunn, oprah, american literature, john updike, african american literature, allen ginsberg, richard wright, beats poetry, edmund white, john a williams, truman capote, alexander trocchi, william styron, robert creeley, gary snyder