Overview
In 2014, author Donald Newlove (1928-2021) put together a collection of articles he had written between 1954 and 1981 that had previously appeared in such publications as Esquire, Evergreen Review, The Village Voice, and New York Magazine. He titled this compilation Trumpet Rhapsodies, describing it as ""a kind of autobiography of my early days as a writer and of my search for a language that trumpeted my youth."" The subject matter of these 15 pieces is wide-ranging. Among the topics, Newlove writes of being chosen to play Taps at a military funeral despite being a ""less-than-amateur"" musician, witnessing (and participating in) the filming of Andy Warhol's first musical, meeting Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda, a spirited dinner at the home of American poet Robert Lowell, his own venture into filmmaking, a run-in with Florida racists and law enforcement, and the secrets of New York City's Strand Book Store.
Full Product Details
Author: Donald Newlove
Publisher: Tough Poets Press
Imprint: Tough Poets Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.277kg
ISBN: 9798218509798
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 29 October 2024
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""That he's one of the best American writers is now unmistakable."" - Walter Clemons, Newsweek, November 11, 1974 ""There's no one quite like Newlove: the energy, the pop, the tumbling, Joycean fall of words, the fun! . . . One of our best and quirkiest stylists."" - The Kirkus Service, August 15, 1979 ""The Newlove sound is robust and swinging."" - R. Z. Sheppard, TIME, March 23, 1981 ""Writing in all its strutting peacock splendor, writing that cackles and sings."" - James Walcott, Esquire, August 1981
Author Information
Donald Newlove was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1928. As a reporter, book reviewer, and short story writer, his work appeared in Esquire, New York Magazine, Evergreen Review, and The Saturday Review. His first published novel, The Painter Gabriel (1970), was hailed by TIME Magazine as ""one of the best fictional studies of madness, descent, and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."" The New York Times praised Sweet Adversity, his 1978 novel of alcoholic conjoined twin jazz musicians, calling it ""one of the most desperately funny books we've been given in a long time."" Newlove was the author of several other novels, a series of books on the art of writing, and the critically acclaimed memoir, Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers (1981). Newlove passed away on August 17, 2021.
