Conversations with Edmund White

by White, Edmund

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Title Statements

Full title :Conversations with Edmund White / edited by Will Brantley and Nancy McGuire Roche.

Summary

"Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews highlight White's predilections, his major achievements, and the pivotal moments of his long, varied career. Since the 1973 publication of his first novel, Forgetting Elena, Edmund White (b. 1940) has become a major figure in literature and gay culture. White is, however, more than just a celebrated gay writer. He is an international man of letters, and his work crosses several genres. White's fiction includes an autobiographical trilogy--A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony--along with more recent novels such as Jack Holmes and His Friend and Our Young Man. White's love of French literature and culture is evident in biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud, and his antipathy to American Puritanism suffuses his collected essays and memoirs and is on full display in two early nonfiction works that helped define the era of gay liberation: The Joy of Gay Sex, coauthored with Charles Silverstein, and States of Desire: Travels in Gay America. A professor of creative writing at Princeton University, White has earned many distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award. White has been a generous interviewer, sharing his time and insights not only with major publications such as the Paris Review, but also with smaller online publications for more limited audiences. A lively commentator, White has never been afraid to speak his mind, even when the result has been public feuds with literary peers on both sides of the Atlantic."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
Place of Publication:Jackson
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781496813565, 1496813561, 9781496813572, 149681357X, 9781496813589, 1496813588, 9781496813596, 1496813596
oclc:ocn993624086
LC Classification:PS3573.H463
Dewey Decimal:813/.54

Cover -- Conversations with Edmund White -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- PW Interviews: Edmund White -- An Interview with Edmund White -- Edmund White: The Art of Fiction 105 -- An Interview with Edmund White -- Paris Interview with Edmund White -- From the Stonewall to The Burning Library: Interview with Edmund White -- The Day That Edmund White Kissed Me -- Edmund White in Conversation -- Edmund White -- Edmund White: The Man Who Wrote The Married Man -- The Sensual Part of Beauty Is the Wound

AIDS, Arts, and Responsibilities: An Interview with Edmund WhiteLine of Beauty: Laurie Taylor Interviews Edmund White -- Edmund White: Hotel de Dream -- Poetry as a â#x80;#x9C;Disordering of the Sensesâ#x80;#x9D; -- New York City Boy: A Conversation with Edmund White -- An Interview with Edmund White -- Interview: Edmund White -- Edmund White: Invention, Imagination, and Memory -- Q & A with Edmund White -- The Art of Being Edmund White: A Capstone Interview

Subjects

Authors, American Authors, American -- Interviews. -- 20t… BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Écrivains américains -- Entretiens. -- … Écrivains homosexuels -- Entretiens. --… Electronic books Gay authors Gay authors -- Interviews. -- United St… Gay men Gay men -- Interviews. -- United States Homosexuels masculins -- Entretiens. --… interviews SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies United States White, Edmund