Beat Writers at Work

Author:   Paris Review ,  George Plimpton ,  Richard Moody
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
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Pages:   368
Publication Date:   16 February 1999
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"From the pages of The Paris Review, a collection of interviews with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and more Edited by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton, and with an introduction by Rick Moody, this anthology of ""Writers at Work"" interviews featuring the great figures of the Beat and Black Mountain movements is an in-depth look into one of the most famous literary tribes of the century. The Beats, with their mix of talent, bravado, and insight into the social and political climes of their time, continue to influence students, writers, and critics today. ""Mr. Plimpton and his able cohorts at The Paris Review have cannily chosen this historical moment for the retrieval of this archive, viz., the fortieth anniversary of Kerouac's masterpiece, and also the recent departures of Ginsberg and Burroughs to celestial addresses, and thus we have a real warts-and-all retrospective, ex post facto, Kerouac in the late sixties, Ginsberg (in one of two pieces here) in the late seventies, Bowles in the eighties, Snyder in the nineties, so that the high period of Beat style is well past at the time of these conversations; Plimpton's wisdom here amounts to permitting the language and form of these interviews to persist over the years and thereby accrue historical context, in which we are enabled to see how the Beat praxis (or Black Mountain praxis) is reactive when faced with such forces as Vietnam, hippie culture, eighties consumerism, neglect by literary history, and so forth.""-from the introduction by Rick Moody"

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Author:   Paris Review ,  George Plimpton ,  Richard Moody
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Modern Library Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780375752155


ISBN 10:   0375752153
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   16 February 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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From the pages of The Paris Review andedited by George Plimpton, the Writers at Work interviews, with the great figures of the Beat and Black Mountain movements Mr. Plimpton and his able cohorts at The Paris Review have cannily chosen this historical moment for the retrieval of this archive, viz., the fortieth anniversary of Kerouac's masterpiece, and also the recent departures of Ginsberg and Burroughs to celestial addresses, and thus we have a real warts-and-all retrospective, ex post facto, Kerouac in the late sixties, Ginsberg (in one of two pieces here) in the late seventies, Bowles in the eighties, Snyder in the nineties, so that the high period of Beat style is well past at the time of these conversations; Plimpton's wisdom here amounts to permitting the language and form of these interviews to persist over the years and thereby accrue historical context, in which we are enabled to see how the Beat praxis (or Black Mountain praxis) is reactive when faced with such forces as Vietnam, hippie culture, eighties consumerism, neglect by literary history, and so forth. --from the Introduction by Rick MoodyIntroduction by Rick Moody, William Burroughs (1965) Allen Ginsberg (1966), Robert Creely (1968), Jack Kerouac (1968)Charles Olson (1970), Voznesensky, Ginsberg, Orlovsky (1980)Paul Bowles (1981), Ken Kesey (1994)A Semester with Allen Ginsberg (1995), Gary Snyder (1996)Barney Rosset (1997), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1998) Read Women Writers at Work in the same series


From the pages of The Paris Review and<br>edited by George Plimpton, the Writers at Work interviews, with the great figures of the Beat <br>and Black Mountain movements <br> Mr. Plimpton and his able cohorts at The Paris Review have cannily chosen this historical moment for the retrieval of this archive, viz., the fortieth anniversary of Kerouac's masterpiece, and also the recent departures of Ginsberg and Burroughs to celestial addresses, and thus we have a real warts-and-all retrospective, ex post facto, Kerouac in the late sixties, Ginsberg (in one of two pieces here) in the late seventies, Bowles in the eighties, Snyder in the nineties, so that the high period of Beat style is well past at the time of these conversations; Plimpton's wisdom here amounts to permitting the language and form of these interviews to persist over the years and thereby accrue historical context, in which we are enabled to see how the Beat praxis (or Black Mountain praxis) is reactive when faced with such forces as Vietnam, hippie culture, eighties consumerism, neglect by literary history, and so forth. <br>--from the Introduction by Rick MoodyIntroduction by Rick Moody, William Burroughs (1965) <br>Allen Ginsberg (1966), Robert Creely (1968), Jack Kerouac (1968)<br>Charles Olson (1970), Voznesensky, Ginsberg, Orlovsky (1980)<br>Paul Bowles (1981), Ken Kesey (1994)<br>A Semester with Allen Ginsberg (1995), Gary Snyder (1996)<br>Barney Rosset (1997), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1998) <br>Read Women Writers at Work in the same series


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