The Resource Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark, James Campbell
Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark, James Campbell
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The item Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark, James Campbell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
- 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 Ginsbe
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages)
- Contents
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: NEW YORK NEW YORKERS; 1. Sunshine and Shadows: A Profile of John Updike; 2. Updike's Village Sex; 3. William Maxwell's Lives; 4. Notes from a Small Island: A Profile 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: A Profile 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 The Island Affair: Richard Wright's Unpublished Last Novel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. Williams12. All That Jive: Stanley Crouch; 13. Love Lost: Toni Morrison; 14. The Rhetoric of Rage: A Profile of Amiri Baraka; PART III: SYNCOPATIONS; 15. High Peak Haikus: A Profile 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: A Profile of Edmund White; 20. To Beat the Bible: A Profile 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 Tongues
- Isbn
- 9780520941083
- Label
- Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark
- Title
- Syncopations
- Title remainder
- Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark
- Statement of responsibility
- James Campbell
- Subject
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- American literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- African American authors
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
- Authors, Scottish
- Authors, Scottish -- 20th century -- Biography
- Beats (Persons)
- Beats (Persons)
- Biography
- Campbell, James, 1951-
- 1900-1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Intellectual life
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- New York (State) -- New York
- Campbell, James, 1951-
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 Ginsbe
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Campbell, James
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Campbell, James
- Campbell, James
- Campbell, James
- American literature
- American literature
- Beats (Persons)
- Authors, Scottish
- New York (N.Y.)
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- American literature
- American literature
- Authors, Scottish
- Beats (Persons)
- Intellectual life
- New York (State)
- Label
- Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark, James Campbell
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: NEW YORK NEW YORKERS; 1. Sunshine and Shadows: A Profile of John Updike; 2. Updike's Village Sex; 3. William Maxwell's Lives; 4. Notes from a Small Island: A Profile 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: A Profile 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. Williams12. All That Jive: Stanley Crouch; 13. Love Lost: Toni Morrison; 14. The Rhetoric of Rage: A Profile of Amiri Baraka; PART III: SYNCOPATIONS; 15. High Peak Haikus: A Profile 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: A Profile of Edmund White; 20. To Beat the Bible: A Profile 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 Tongues
- Control code
- ocn847616936
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520941083
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttszh2k
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)847616936
- Label
- Syncopations : Beats, New Yorkers, and writers in the dark, James Campbell
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: NEW YORK NEW YORKERS; 1. Sunshine and Shadows: A Profile of John Updike; 2. Updike's Village Sex; 3. William Maxwell's Lives; 4. Notes from a Small Island: A Profile 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: A Profile 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. Williams12. All That Jive: Stanley Crouch; 13. Love Lost: Toni Morrison; 14. The Rhetoric of Rage: A Profile of Amiri Baraka; PART III: SYNCOPATIONS; 15. High Peak Haikus: A Profile 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: A Profile of Edmund White; 20. To Beat the Bible: A Profile 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 Tongues
- Control code
- ocn847616936
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520941083
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttszh2k
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)847616936
Subject
- American literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- African American authors
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
- Authors, Scottish
- Authors, Scottish -- 20th century -- Biography
- Beats (Persons)
- Beats (Persons)
- Biography
- Campbell, James, 1951-
- 1900-1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Intellectual life
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- New York (State) -- New York
- Campbell, James, 1951-
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