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The Writer's world. Presented by the Authors Guild. Edited by Elizabeth Janeway.

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The Writer's world. Presented by the Authors Guild. Edited by Elizabeth Janeway.
Publication
New York, McGraw-Hill [1969]

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  • Authors' Guild (U.S.)
  • Janeway, Elizabeth
  • Janeway, Elizabeth,
Description
vi, 415 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Transcripts of thirteen panel discussions held at the New School for Social Research (New York) in 1965 and 1966 on the subject of writers and writing.
Subject
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Authorship
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
First and third person: biography and autobiography. John Mason Brown. Helen Howe. Alfred Kazin. Leo Rosten -- Private views on public affairs. Robert Novak. Michael V. DiSalle. Daniel P. Moynihan. Richard Rovere -- History re-created: a guide to the future? Barbara Tuchman. Walter Lord. William L. Shirer. Dr. John R. Everett -- What can we expect from the repertory theater? Herbert Blau. June Havoc. Howard Taubman. Maurice Valency -- Fiction, the personal dimension. Louis Auchincloss. Wallace Markfield. Joseph Heller. Dwight Macdonald -- The action writer: social commitment in literature. Joseph Barnes. Bel Kaufman. Irving Kristol. Peter S. Jennison -- What can we expect from Broadway? Harold Prince. Walter Kerr. Abe Burrows. Jerome Weidman -- Attitudes toward criticism. Uwe Johnson. William Phillips. Susan Sontag. Richard Poirier -- Is the short story necessary? John Cheever. Shirley Hazzard. Harry Mark Petrakis. Elizabeth Janeway -- Ways of looking at history. David E. Lilienthal. Cornelius Ryan. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Russell Lynes -- Social uses of power. John Brooks. Kenneth B. Clark. Jane Jacobs. Eric Larrabee -- Poetry, for whom? Robert Graves. Marianne Moore. Howard Nemerov. Stanley Kunitz -- Is the novel old fashioned? Peter S. Feibleman. Isaac Bashevis Singer. Sol Yurick. Glenway Wescott -- Violence in literature. Dr. Robert Coles. William Styron. Robert Penn Warren. Theodore Solotaroff -- Journalism and mischief. Frances FitzGerald. Eliot Fremont-Smith. Gay Talese. Leon Edel.
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Harvard Library