Research Catalog

Title

Editors : the best from five decades / [edited by] Saul Bellow & Keith Botsford ; compiled by Keith Botsford ; assisted by Sassan Tabatabai.

Publication

London ; [New Milford], Ct. : Toby Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Bellow, Saul
• Bellow, Saul,
• Botsford, Keith, 1928-2018
• Tabatabai, Sassan.

Description

xiv, 1119 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

Literature, Modern > 20th century

Genre/Form

Literature, Modern – 20th century.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Arias. Pains and gains / Saul Bellow -- The seeing eye / Anonymous -- Doctor of science, patient of poetry / Stephen Spender -- The 11:59 news / Saul Bellow -- Obit on a witness / Keith Botsford -- Mr. Wollix gets an honorary degree / Saul Bellow -- Nixon and Hayakawa / Mark Harris -- White House and artists / Saul Bellow -- The poor man’s civil defense manual / Felix Pollak -- A few notes on the changing world / Philip O’Connor -- View from intensive care / Saul Bellow -- Graven images / Saul Bellow -- Last journal / Philip O’Connor -- Real life / James Wood -- Cars and the man / Martin Amis -- Objective correlative / Julia Copeland.
• Archives. Ramblings in Cheapside / Samuel Butler -- Portrait of Maurice Magnus / D.H. Lawrence -- The executioner / Joseph de Maistre -- The interment of Napoleon / Victor Hugo.
• Investigations. Critic and common reader / George P. Elliot -- Seven numbered notes / Harold Rosenberg -- On being a poet in America / Louis Simpson -- The Public art of crisis in the suburbs of Hell / Herbert Blau -- The romantic method / Marjorie Farber -- A Dark Mirror / Raymond Tallis.
• Lives. A year of disgrace / Josephine Herbst -- Memories of Warsaw / Antoni Slonimski -- With malice aforethought / G. V. Desani -- Sulla and the satyr / Rudolf Kassner -- Mozart / Saul Bellow -- Ralph Ellison in Tivoli / Saul Bellow -- Life as a tattoo artist / Alan Govenar and Leonard St. Clair -- Saul Steinberg / Saul Bellow.
• Poems. Life cycle of common man / Howard Nemerov -- The advance on the retreat / Oonagh Lahr -- Count Nulin / Alexander Pushkin -- Message from the city / Anthony Hecht -- What an old man has left / Cesare Pavese -- Winterreise / Michael Hulse.
• Texts. Cowboys / Edward Hoagland -- Notes from the ground up / Harold Rosenberg -- The starched blue sky of Spain / Josephine Herbst -- Please don’t kill anything / Arthur Miller -- The scene / Wright Morris -- The self-made brain surgeon / Mark Harris -- Friendship / Louis Guilloux -- The annealing / Sol Yurick -- An American fiesta / Dan Wakefield -- Copperskin / Jara Ribnikar -- Thursday out / John Berryman -- What’s this cat’s story? / Seymour Krim -- Under the Rose / Thomas Pynchon Death in Miami Beach / Herbert Gold -- Mephisto’s daughter / G. V. Desani -- Palante / Louis Guilloux -- Oedipus-schmoedipus / Louis Gallo -- An angelic visit on Via dei Martiri / Elémire Zolla -- Blackdamp / Robert Coover -- A little bit of the old slap and tickle / John Hawkes -- Dad among the troglodytes, or show me a Gypsy and I’ll show you a nut / Nelson Algren -- Don Alonso Quixano, lineal descendants / Anthony Kerrigan -- Glimpse at a jockey / Arthur Miller -- Hitler’s mother / Sydor Rey -- The line of fire / Leon Rooke -- Lichtenberg, Diderot, Galiani / Meyer Schapiro -- Pocket elephants / Christopher Middleton, Cristoph Meckel -- A Jewish savant / Umberto Saba -- Distortions / John Auerbach -- A little learning / Bette Howland -- Strictly from hunger / S. H. Perelman -- Grace notes / Conall Ryan -- The second life of Gioacchino Rossini / Keith Botsford -- Two old people / Silvio d’Arzo -- Lighea, or the siren / G. T. de Lampedusa -- My father in the mirror / Karl Logher -- All marbles accounted for / Saul Bellow -- The seduction of my sister / Murray Bail -- Prairie / S. Scibona.

ISBN

1902881354

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library