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OverviewWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture-from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Neale Hurston to Marcel Duchamp-now includes a new afterword by the author. Weaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture-from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Neale Hurston to Marcel Duchamp-now includes a new afterword by the author. Rachel Cohen's A Chance Meeting is a dazzling group portrait that offers a striking new vision of the making and remaking of the American mind and imagination from the Civil War to the Vietnam War. How does the happenstance of daily life become history? Cohen shows us, describing a series of, now boldly, now subtly, transformative encounters between a wide and surprising range of Americans. A young Henry James has his portrait taken by the photographer Mathew Brady-Brady, who will receive Walt Whitman in his studio and depict General Grant on the battlefield. Later, W.E.B. Du Bois and his professor William James visit Helen Keller; Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz argue about photography; and Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston write a play together. Throughout, Cohen's narrative loops back and leaps forward with supreme agility, connecting, among others, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Beauford Delaney, James Baldwin, and Richard Avedon. In A Chance Meeting, Rachel Cohen offers an abiding account of the continuing challenges and the astonishing achievements of American life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel Cohen , Rachel Cohen , Vijay SeshadriPublisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc Imprint: NYRB Classics Weight: 0.369kg ISBN: 9781681378107ISBN 10: 1681378108 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 19 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Henry James and Mathew Brady Chapter 2: William Dean Howells and Annie Adams Fields and Walt Whitman Chapter 3: Mathew Brady and Ulysses S. Grant Chapter 4: William Dean Howells and Henry James Chapter 5: Walt Whitman and Matthew Brady Chapter 6: Mark Twain and William Dean Howells Chapter 7: Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant Chapter 8: W.E.B. Du Bois and William James Chapter 9: Gertrude Stein and William James Chapter 10: Henry James and Annie Adams Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett Chapter 11: Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz Chapter 12: Willa Cather and Mark Twain Chapter 13: Willa Cather and Annie Adams Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett Chapter 14: Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz and Gertrude Stein Chapter 15: Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein Chapter 16: Marcel Duchamp and Alfred Stieglitz Chapter 17: Willa Cather and Edward Steichen and Katherine Anne Porter Chapter 18: Alfred Stieglitz and Hart Crane Chapter 19: Hart Crane and Charlie Chaplin Chapter 20: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston Chapter 21: Beauford Delaney and W.E.B. Du Bois Chapter 22: Hart Crane and Katherine Anne Porter Chapter 23: Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Chapter 24: Zora Neale Hurston and Carl Van Vechten Chapter 25: Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp Chapter 26: Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Chapter 27: Joseph Cornell and Marianne Moore Chapter 28: James Baldwin and Norman Mailer Chapter 29: Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop Chapter 30: John Cage and Richard Avedon Chapter 31: W.E.B. Du Bois and Charlie Chaplin Chapter 32: Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten and Richard Avedon Chapter 33: Richard Avedon and James Baldwin Chapter 34: Marianne Moore and Norman Mailer Chapter 35: John Cage and Marcel Duchamp Chapter 36: Norman Mailer and Robert LowellReviews"""Cohen is besotted with the cross-pollination of talent, with the way creative people flit in and out of each other's orbits...like a portraitist, Cohen turns her subjects this way and that, refracting a moment until the light catches it just right...the effect can be dazzling."" —David Kipen, NPR" Author InformationRachel Cohen is the author of three books of nonfiction, most recently Austen Years- A Memoir in Five Novels, which was published by FSG in 2020 to critical acclaim. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, and The New York Times, among other publications, and her work has been included in Best American Essays and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She is Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago. Vijay Seshadri is the author of five books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning 3 Sections and, most recently, the collection That Was Now, This is Then. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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