The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin
James Laughlin-poet, ladies' man, heir to a steel fortune, and the founder of New Directions-was still at work on his autobiography when he died at 83. He left behind personal files crammed with memories and memorabilia: in M he is taking Marianne Moore to Yankee games (outings captured here in charming snapshots) to discuss arcane mammals, and in N nearly plunging off a mountain, hunting butterflies with Nabokov (Volya was a doll in a very severe upper-crust Russian way).With an accent on humor, The Way It Wasn't is a scrapbook loaded with ephemera-letters and memories, clippings and photographs. This richly illustrated album glitters like a…
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Weitere Autoren: Epler, Barbara (Hrsg.) / Javitch, Daniel (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1667-8
- EAN: 9780811216678
- Produktnummer: 2503534
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 337 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B18.1 cm x D3.2 cm 1'197 g
- Gewicht: 1197
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James Laughlin (1914-1997) founded New Directions in 1936 while still a student at Harvard. He wrote and compiled more than a dozen books of poetry as well as stories and essays; seven volumes of his correspondence with his authors are available from W.W. Norton.
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