Writing in America - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813598443 ISBN 13 : 9780813598444

Editeur : Rutgers University Press Classics, 2018

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the fall of 1959, Harper's Magazine published a special supplement on the state of writing and the American literary scene. The supplement was greeted with a broadside of commendation and a fusillade of cavil, and has since become recognized as the most useful brief survey of the contemporary state of the American writing arts and of their fellow travelers, the spoken word, the typescript word, the filmed and televised word, and the publishing memorandum. In this newly reissued volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint, Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960. Here, writers including Robert Brustein, Stanley Kunitz, and C.P. Snow examine the state of writing in American novels, films, and television candidly and critically. The result is a collection of essays that showcase a first-rate and highly entertaining piece of reporting on the American literary scene that resonate in 2017.

Biographie de l'auteur :

John Fischer was a writer and editor-in-chief of Harper's Magazine from 1935 to 1967. Robert B. Silvers was an editorial board member for Harper's Magazine and served as editor of The New York Review of Books from 1963 to 2017. He has received many awards and accolades, including the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Award for "Distinguished Service to the Arts," the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing and a National Humanities Medal. Among other honors, he was a Chevalier of the French Legion d'honneur and a member of the French Ordre National du Merite. He was also awarded the 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press Classics
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0813598443
• ISBN 13: 9780813598444
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200