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Conversations with Edmund White

Author : Will Brantley
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496813561
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Edmund White written by Will Brantley and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews highlight White's predilections, his major achievements, and the pivotal moments of his long, varied career. Since the 1973 publication of his first novel, Forgetting Elena, Edmund White (b. 1940) has become a major figure in literature and gay culture. White is, however, more than just a celebrated gay writer. He is an international man of letters, and his work crosses several genres. White's fiction includes an autobiographical trilogy: A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony"along with more recent novels such as Jack Holmes and His Friend and Our Young Man. White's love of French literature and culture is evident in biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud, and his antipathy to American Puritanism suffuses his collected essays and memoirs and is on full display in two early nonfiction works that helped define the era of gay liberation: The Joy of Gay Sex, coauthored with Charles Silverstein, and States of Desire: Travels in Gay America. A professor of creative writing at Princeton University, White has earned many distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award. White has been a generous interviewer, sharing his time and insights not only with major publications such as the Paris Review, but also with smaller online publications for more limited audiences. A lively commentator, White has never been afraid to speak his mind, even when the result has been public feuds with literary peers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Popular Music Autobiography

Author : Oliver Lovesey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501355848
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Popular Music Autobiography written by Oliver Lovesey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book situates these works -- in the forms of formal autobiographies and memoirs, auto-fiction, songs, and self-fashioned museum exhibitions -- within the context of the recent expansion of interest in autobiography, disability, and celebrity studies. It argues that these writings express anxiety over musical originality and authenticity, and seeks to dispel their writers' celebrity status and particularly the association with a lack of seriousness. These works often constitute a meditation on the nature of postmodern fame within a celebrity-obsessed culture, and paradoxically they aim to regain the private self in a public forum.

Arts and Letters

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Cleis Press
ISBN 13 : 1573442488
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Arts and Letters written by Edmund White and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2006-08-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these 39 lively essays and profiles, bestselling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly humour to illuminate some of the most influential writers, artists and cultural icons of the past century, among them Marcel Proust, Catherine Deneuve, George Eliot, Andy Warhol, André Gide, David Geffen, and Robert Mapplethorpe. 'Anyone who loves arts and letters even half as much as Edmund White will enjoy this fine collection by this admirable American writer.' - The Washington Post Book World

The Unpunished Vice

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408870282
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Unpunished Vice written by Edmund White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ______________ 'I find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White ... Wisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page' - Observer 'One of the great prose stylists of our time ... There are few paragraphs that pass by without an illuminating, wise or funny comment' - Tim Smith-Laing, Daily Telegraph 'A rallying cry for the pleasures of reading ... The best writers are energetic readers, constantly diving for buried treasure. Anyone who encounters this book is likely to emerge with something new and gleaming' - Financial Times ______________ Edmund White made his name as a writer, but he remembers his life through the books he read. For White, each momentous occasion came with books to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels. White's larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved cultural figures. Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a sensitive, smart account of a life in literature.

Inside a Pearl

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408820455
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Inside a Pearl written by Edmund White and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary treat: a memoir of Edmund White's years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s Paris

Our Young Man

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408858959
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Our Young Man written by Edmund White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships' New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart is Guy. The darling of Fire Island's gay community and one of New York's top male models, Guy is gliding his way to riches that are a world away from his modest provincial upbringing back home in France. Like some modern-day Dorian Gray he seems untouched by time: the decades pass, fashions change, yet his beauty remains as transcendent and captivating as ever. Such looks cannot help but bring him adoration. From sweet yet pathetic Fred to the wealthy and masochistic Baron, from the acerbic and cynical Pierre-Georges to Andre, fabricating Dalí fakes and hurtling towards prison and the abyss, all are in some way fixated on him. In return for the devotion and expensive gifts they lavish on him, he plays with unswerving loyalty whatever role they project onto him: unattainable idol, passionate lover, malleable client. But just as the years are catching up on his smooth skin and perfect body, so his way of life is closing in on him and destroying the men he loves. Edmund White has in Our Young Man created some of the richest representations of gay male identity, from the disco era to the age of AIDs. What links them all is the allure and enchantment they find in beauty. Revelling in its magic, Our Young Man nonetheless slips beneath the seductive surface to examine its dangerous depths, exploring its power to fascinate, enslave and deceive. Mesmerising, blackly comic, and delicately crafted, this is an exquisite novel from a contemporary master.

Conversations with Mary Gordon

Author : Mary Gordon
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578064472
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Mary Gordon written by Mary Gordon and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conversations with Mary Gordon, Mary Gordon reveals her intellectual vigor, her freewheeling humor, and her strongly held opinions on issues ranging from sex to contemporary literature and gender theory. With candor, she details her departure from and eventual return to her Irish-Catholic heritage. Since the resounding success of her first novel, Final Payments (1978), Gordon has been one of America's most popular and controversial writers. She has published five novels, three novellas, two collections of essays, a short story collection, a memoir, a biography of Joan of Arc, and dozens of book reviews. Conversations with Mary Gordon joins the writer in talks with Terry Gross, Charlie Rose, Edmund White, Madison Smartt Bell, Patrick H. Samway, and others. Nine of these interviews have never before been published. Her many interviewers know her as a wonderful, gregarious, passionate, and articulate interviewee. This is surprising, considering that Gordon once insisted during an interview that ""interviews are absolutely my idea of hell."" The clarity and conviction evident in her writing are matched by the same qualities in her conversation. She explores her favorite novelists--Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Ford Madox Ford--and talks at length about how and why she uses Roman Catholicism as metaphor and symbol in her own writing. Freely discussing the autobiographic influences in her work, she is open about the huge influence of her father. David Gordon, a journalist and scholar, died when Mary was seven. Mary loved him dearly, and she discusses his influence on her life and writing, as well as her profound disillusionment with him when she discovered the self-hatred and ultra-conservatism of his writing. Her utter devotion to him in early interviews gives way to disillusionment, rejection, and, ultimately, acceptance. This collection allows the reader to trace the roots--both literary and autobiographical--of one of America's most fiercely intelligent and thoughtful writers. Alma Bennett is an associate professor of humanities and English at Clemson University.

The Married Man

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307764486
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Married Man written by Edmund White and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair. Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.

Something Inside

Author : Philip Gambone
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299161347
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Something Inside written by Philip Gambone and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last twenty years, gay literature has earned a place at the American and British literary tables, spawning its own constellation of important writers and winning a dedicated audience. No one, though, until Philip Gambone, has attempted to offer a collective portrait of our most important gay fiction writers. This selection of interviews attempts just that and is notable both for the depth of Gambone's probing conversations and for the sheer range of important authors included. Allen Barnett Christopher Bram Peter Cameron Bernard Cooper Dennis Cooper Michael Cunningham Brad Gooch Joseph Hansen Scott Heim Andrew Holleran Alan Hollinghurst Brian Keith Jackson Randall Kenan David Leavitt Michael Lowenthal Paul Monette Michael Nava David Plante John Preston Lev Raphael Edmund White

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes

Author : Patrick O'Donnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119431719
Total Pages : 1607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes written by Patrick O'Donnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 1607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as a vision of what may come. It perfectly balances analysis, summary, and critique for an illuminating treatment of the subject matter. This collection also includes: An exciting mix of established and emerging contributors from around the world discussing central and cutting-edge topics in American fiction studies Focused, critical explorations of authors and subjects of critical importance to American fiction Topics that reflect the energies and tendencies of contemporary American fiction from the forty years between 1980 and 2020 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students of American literature, English, creative writing, and fiction studies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars seeking an authoritative array of contributions on both established and newer authors of contemporary fiction.

The Flaneur

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408883724
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Flaneur written by Edmund White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flâneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the streets he walks - and is in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic. Acclaimed writer Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the avenues and along the quays, into parts of the city virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many locals, luring the reader into the fascinating and seductive backstreets of his personal Paris.

A Boy's Own Story

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 150981387X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book A Boy's Own Story written by Edmund White and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst. It was his power that stupefied me and made me regard my knowledge as nothing more than hired cleverness he might choose to show off at a dinner party. A Boy's Own Story traces an unnamed narrator's coming-of-age during the 1950s. Beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, the boy struggles with his sexuality, seeking consolation in art and literature, and in his own fantastic imagination as he fills his head with romantic expectations. The result is a book of exquisite poignancy and humour that moves towards a conclusion which will allow the boy to leave behind his childhood forever. Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. Lyrical and powerfully evocative, this is an American literary treasure.

My Lives

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060937963
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book My Lives written by Edmund White and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one has been more frank, lucid, and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, starting with A Boy's Own Story, White here takes fiction out of his story and delivers the facts of his life in all their shocking and absorbing verity. In My Lives, White shares his enthusiasms and his passions, and he introduces us to his lovers and predilections.

Meine Leben

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Albino Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3863003306
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Meine Leben written by Edmund White and published by Albino Verlag. This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund White verblüfft seine Leserschaft immer wieder mit neuen Möglichkeiten des autobiografischen Schreibens. In "Meine Leben" blickt der amerikanische Schriftsteller zurück auf die tragenden Säulen eines langen Lebens: "Meine Therapeuten", "Mein Vater", "Meine Stricher", "Meine Frauen" – in zehn Kapiteln findet er originelle und beileibe nicht immer schmeichelhafte Zugänge zu seiner Vergangenheit und erzählt weit mehr als nur die eigene Lebensgeschichte. Sein Vater ist ein gewiefter Geschäftsmann im Mittleren Westen, für den schon das Tragen einer Armbanduhr als unmännlich gilt; seine Mutter eine extravagante Kinderpsychologin, die ihren Sohn zum Test-Patient macht und nach der Scheidung in die intimsten Details ihrer glücklosen Affären einweiht. Zwischen diesen ungleichen Polen wird der kleine Edmund hin- und hergeschubst – ein bebrillter, tuntiger Klugscheißer, der sein erstes selbstverdientes Geld für Stricher ausgibt. "Meine Leben" führt die Leser tief in die Geschichte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, seziert auf dem Hintergrund biografischer Erfahrungen immer auch geschichtliche, philosophische und politische Aspekte der Wirklichkeit. Dabei kommt White der speziellen amerikanischen Lebensintensität so nah wie nie zuvor – und den Schutzmechanismen, die diese Intensität manchmal erfordert. Ein gegen sich selbst und andere schonungsloses, pralles und kluges Buch. "Das ist Whites bestes Buch ... eine erstaunliche und wundervoll geschriebene Autobiografie, die einen großen Geist und eine großzügige, außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit zum Ausdruck bringt." (The Independent) "White beschäftigt sich hier, wie in vielen seiner Romane, mit dem Verrat: ob es möglich ist, sich selbst zu verraten, und ob es möglich ist, andere Menschen nicht zu verraten; und wie, wenn überhaupt, diese Dinge zusammenhängen. (The London Review of Books)

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030776446X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Room Is Empty written by Edmund White and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age. "With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World

Authors on Writing

Author : B. Tomlinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230595669
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Authors on Writing written by B. Tomlinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on some 3,000 published interviews with contemporary authors, Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor reveals new ways of conceiving of writing as intellectual labor. Authors' metaphorical stories about composing highlight not interior worlds but socially situated cultures of composing and apparatuses of authorship. Through an original method of interpreting metaphorical stories, Tomlinson argues that writing is both an individual activity and a collective practice, a solitary activity that depends upon rich, sustained, and complex social networks, institutions, and beliefs. This new book draws upon interviews with writers including: Seamus Heaney, Roald Dahl, Samuel Beckett, Bret Easton Ellis, John Fowles, Allen Ginsburg, Alice Walker and Gore Vidal.

States of Desire Revisited

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299302644
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book States of Desire Revisited written by Edmund White and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund White looks back at the varied cultures of the 1970s Gay Liberation era across the United States just before the 1980s devastation of AIDS, and in an afterword reflects on the internet's role today in creating a new global GLBTQ community.