Argues that the famous Russian-American novelist, accused of turning a blind eye to the horrors of history, hid this disturbing information within his fiction.
Draws on extensive research and exclusive interviews to share previously undisclosed aspects of the enigmatic writer's life, from his private relationships and service in World War II to his legal concerns and innermost secrets.
La Beat Generation c'est Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs : trois écrivains qui allaient bousculer durablement l'Amérique. Mais l'étincelle, celui qui a mis le feu aux poudres, s'appelle Neal Cassady. Il est l'alter ego, le «frère de sang» de Jack Kerouac qui en fait le héros de Sur…
Isaac Asimov: it's been a good life
"A sweeping collection and a tribute to one of the most influential, daring, and visionary minds of the twentieth century The year 2015 marks several literary milestones: the centennial of Saul Bellow's birth, the tenth anniversary of his death, and the publication of Zachary Le…
When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this memoir. Featuring 78 poems, 78 essays, and intimate family photographs, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can …
T. 1. Into the fifties. Innocence ; The kindness of strangers ; Howl ; Soul kiss ; Going Hollywood -- pt. 2. The sixties. The great homosexual theater scare ; The medium is the messsage ; Love and sex and A single man ; The whole world is watching ; Riots -- pt. 3. The seventies…
T. 1. Into the fifties. Innocence ; The kindness of strangers ; Howl ; Soul kiss ; Going Hollywood -- pt. 2. The sixties. The great homosexual theater scare ; The medium is the messsage ; Love and sex and A single man ; The whole world is watching ; Riots -- pt. 3. The seventies…
Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee. In the years following World War II a grou…
Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee. In the years following World War II a grou…
Against skeptics, Manniste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of his texts. It is demonstrated that this philosophy, as a metaphysical sense of life, forms a system the understanding of which is necessary to adequately explain even …
Against skeptics, Manniste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of his texts. It is demonstrated that this philosophy, as a metaphysical sense of life, forms a system the understanding of which is necessary to adequately explain even …
"Sigal breaks new ground in celebrating Hemingway's passionate and unapologetic political partisanship, his stunningly concise, no-frills writing style, and an attitude to sex and sexuality much more nuanced than traditionally assumed"--Page 4 of cover.