Research Catalog

Title

Conversations with James Salter / edited by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

Supplementary Content

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Details

Additional Authors

• Levasseur, Jennifer, 1977-
• Rabalais, Kevin, 1976-

Description

xxii, 236 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"James Salter (born James Horowitz in 1925) has been known throughout his career as a "writer's writer," acclaimed by such literary greats as Susan Sontag, Richard Ford, John Banville, and Peter Matthiessen for his lyrical prose, his insightful and daring explorations of sex, and his examinations of the inner lives of women and men. Conversations with James Salter collects interviews published from 1972 to 2014 with the award-winning author of The Hunters, A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, and All That Is. Gathered here are his earliest interviews following acclaimed but moderately selling novels, conversations covering his work as a screenwriter and award-winning director, and interviews charting his explosive popularity after publishing All That Is, his first novel after a gap of thirty-four years. These conversations chart Salter's progression as a writer, his love affair with France, his military past as a fighter pilot, and his lyrical explorations of gender relations.The collection contains interviews from Sweden, Chile, France, and Argentina appearing for the first time in English. Included as well are published conversations from the United States, Canada, and Australia, some of which are significantly extended versions, giving this collection an international scope of Salter's wide-ranging career and his place in world literature"--

Series Statement

Literary conversations series

Uniform Title

Literary conversations series.

Subjects

• Screenwriters
• Motion picture producers and directors
• Authors, American
• LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
• Screenwriters > United States > Interviews
• Motion picture authorship
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
• Interviews
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
• Fiction > Authorship
• Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Interviews
• United States
• Salter, James > Interviews
• 1900 - 1999
• Authors, American > 20th century > Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Note

• Portions translated from the Swedish and French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Portions translated from the Swedish and French.

Contents

Chronology -- James Salter on the Screenwriter / Fred Baker with Ross Firestone / 1970 -- Circling Important Themes: An Interview with James Salter / Robert E. Burke / 1988 -- A Few Well-Chosen Words -- Adam Begley / 1990 -- Interview with James Salter / William Dowie / 1992 -- James Salter, The Art of Fiction No. 133 / Edward Hirsch / 1992 -- Interview with James Salter / Eleanor Wachtel / 1998 -- A Conversation with James Salter / Chris Offutt / 2004 -- Dan Pope Talks with James Salter / Dan Pope / 2004 -- An Officer and a Gentleman / David Bowman / 2005 -- Interview with James Salter / Robert Franden / 2007 -- An Interview with James Salter / Kevin Rabalais / 2010 -- In the Light Where Art and Longing Meet: My Day with James Salter / Sonya Chung / 2010 -- Life Passes into Pages: A Conversation with James Salter / Tim Sohn / 2011 -- Don't Save Anything: A Conversation with James Salter / Dexter Cirillo / 2013 -- James Salter / Thad Ziolkowski / 2013 -- Master of the Slow Reveal / Kevin Rabalais / 2013 -- James Salter en intervju [an interview] / Hans Ingvar Roth. Published in Swedish translation at www.dixikon.se (October 19, 2013). Original English transcript (with assistance from Patrik Ekström) printed with permission / 2013 -- Another Kind of Life: Jonathan Lee interviews James Salter / Jonathan Lee / 2013 -- Salter on Salter: An Interview / Kay Eldredge Salter / 2013 -- You Are Writing What You Are, All the Time: A Conversation with James Salter / Dan DeWeese / 2013 -- Life and Everything That Happened: An Interview with James Salter / Andres Hax / 2014 -- Entretien avec James Salter : "J'essaie de me préserver des autres voix quand je travaille." [Interview with James Salter: "I try and keep away from other voices when working."] / Arnaud Laporte / 2014. Published in French translation in Le Magazine Littéraire (7 August 2014), 20 23. Original English transcript printed with permission.

Call Number

JFE 16-801

ISBN

• 9781496803573
• 1496803574

LCCN

2015019110

OCLC

908375194

Title

Conversations with James Salter / edited by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literary conversations series

Literary conversations series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Portions translated from the Swedish and French.

Connect to:

Cover image

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Levasseur, Jennifer, 1977- editor.

Rabalais, Kevin, 1976- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Conversations with James Salter Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015 9781496803580 (DLC) 2015025373

Research Call Number

JFE 16-801