Literchoor Is My Beat: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions Contributor(s): MacNiven, Ian S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374299390 ISBN-13: 9780374299392 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2014 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers - Language Arts & Disciplines | Publishers & Publishing Industry |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2014008669 |
Physical Information: 2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.90 lbs) 592 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents |
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist, Biography, 2014 |
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2014 pg. 72 Publishers Weekly 08/04/2014 Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2014 Booklist 11/15/2014 pg. 11 Shelf Awareness 12/16/2014 New Yorker (The) 02/23/2015 pg. 179 New York Review of Books 04/02/2015 pg. 36 Library Journal 06/01/2014 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A biography--thoughtful and playful--of the man who founded New Directions and transformed American publishing James Laughlin--poet, publisher, world-class skier--was the man behind some of the most daring, revolutionary works in verse and prose of the twentieth century. As the founder of New Directions, he published Ezra Pound's The Cantos and William Carlos Williams's Paterson; he brought Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges to an American audience. Throughout his life, this tall, charismatic intellectual, athlete, and entrepreneur preferred to stay hidden. But no longer--in "Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions, Ian S. MacNiven has given us a sensitive and revealing portrait of this visionary and the understory of the last century of American letters. |
Contributor Bio(s): MacNiven, Ian S.: - Ian S. MacNiven's authorized biography of Lawrence Durrell was a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. He has edited two collections of Durrell's correspondence (with Richard Aldington and Henry Miller), is the author of numerous articles on literary modernism, and has directed and spoken at conferences on three continents. He is also a past president of the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America and of the International Lawrence Durrell Society. MacNiven resides on the west bank of the Hudson, outside the town of Athens, New York. |
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