| Description |
298 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"A New York Review collection"--Spine. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Stanley Kunitz on Theodore Roethke -- Robert Lowell on Randall Jarrell -- Edward Dahlberg on Hart Crane -- Robert Oppenheimer on Albert Einstein -- Dwight Macdonald on Delmore Schwartz -- Alfred Kazin on Josephine Herbst -- Jason Epstein on Edmund Wilson -- Susan Sontag on Paul Goodman -- Anna Akhmatova on Amedeo Modigliani -- Robert Craft on Igor Stravinsky -- Saul Bellow on John Cheever -- Mary McCarthy on F.W. Dupee -- Derek Walcott on Robert Lowell -- Darryl Pinckney on Djuna Barnes -- Maurice Grosser on Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas -- Prudence Crowther on S.J. Perelman -- Michael Ignatieff on Bruce Chatwin -- Joseph Brodsky on Isaiah Berlin -- Caroline Blackwood on Francis Bacon -- Elizabeth Hardwick on Mary McCarthy -- Tatyana Tolstaya on Joseph Brodsky -- Enrique Krauze on Octavio Paz -- Richard Seaver on Jérôme Lindon -- Seamus Heaney on Thomas Flanagan -- Larry McMurtry on Ken Kesey -- Brad Leithauser on Anthony Hecht -- Oliver Sacks on Francis Crick. |
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Stanley Kunitz on Theodore Roethke -- Robert Lowell on Randall Jarrell -- Edward Dahlberg on Hart Crane -- Robert Oppenheimer on Albert Einstein -- Dwight MacDonald on Delmore Schwartz -- Alfred Kazin on Josephine Herbst -- Jason Epstein on Edmund Wilson -- Susan Sontag on Paul Goodman -- Anna Akhmatova on Amedeo Modigliani -- Robert Craft on Stravinsky -- Saul Bellow on John Cheever -- Mary McCarthy on F.W. Dupee -- Derek Walcott on Robert Lowell -- Darryl Pinckney on Djuna Barnes -- Maurice Grosser on Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas -- Prudence Crowther on S.J. Perelman -- Michael Ignatieff on Bruce Catwin -- Joseph Brodsky on Isaiah Berlin -- Caroline Blackwood on Francis Bacon -- Elizabeth Hardwick on Mary McCarthy -- Tatyana Tolstaya on Joseph Brodsky -- Enrique Krauze on Octavio Paz -- Richard Seaver on Jerome Lindon -- Seamus Heaney on Thomas Flanagan -- Larry McMurtry on Ken Kesey -- Brad Leithauser on Anthony Hecht -- Oliver Sacks on Francis Crick. |
| Subject |
Celebrities -- Biography.
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Authors -- Biography.
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Friendship.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Biography -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Silvers, Robert B.
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Epstein, Barbara, 1928-2006.
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| ISBN |
1590172035 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1590172043 paperback alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9781590172032 |
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