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Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark

By James Campbell

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780520941083
DOI
10.1525/9780520941083
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
645 kB (660842 bytes)
Pages
251\244
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 19:00:38

Description

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.

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