Research Catalog

Title

"that lettrous mountain of friendship" : the selected letters of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946 / Bradley Lubin, editor.

Publication

• New York : Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2013.
• Berkeley, California : Small Press Distribution.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
• Kael, Pauline
• Lubin, Bradley
• Alcalay, Ammiel
• Mangum, Megan
• City University of New York. Center for the Humanities, publisher.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

2 volumes (52, 50 pages) : portraits, facsimiles; 23 cm.

Summary

"Pauline Kael and Robert Duncan met in the 1930s as students at the University of California-Berkeley. After both dropped out, they maintained a six year correspondence recording the trials, excitements, and discoveries of life after Berkeley. The Selected Letters, 1945-46 captures their singular friendship and the mutual interests and sensibilities that united them. Highlights include a dialogue on reading Herman Melville’s Pierre; reflections by Duncan on farm-life in Northern California; notes on his preparation of his manuscript The Years as Catches and Kael’s work on a play; and from New York, Kael’s reportage on art-shows, films, music, and discussion meetings tied to Dwight Macdonald’s journal Politics." --Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 4, number 4, Fall 2013

Uniform Title

• Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; ser. 4, no. 4.
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Alternative Title

That lettrous mountain of friendship : the selected letters of Pauline Kael and Robert Duncan, 1945-1946

Subject

• Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
• Kael, Pauline
• Kael, Pauline > Correspondence
• Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 > Correspondence
• Film critics > United States > Correspondence
• Poets, American > 20th century > Correspondence

Genre/Form

• Chapbooks, American – 21st century.
• Chapbooks – New York (State) – New York – 2013.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I: Introduction -- Editor's note -- The selected correspondence of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946 (Part I) -- Endnotes -- Biographical notes ; Part II: The selected correspondence of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946 (Part II) -- Endnotes -- Biographical notes.

OCLC

• 882200886
• SCSB-12392183

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library