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The Professions of Authorship

Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

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The Professions of Authorship

Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

A tribute to a man whose life's work has centered on the study of authorship and who is a scholar and book collector of the first magnitude, The Professions of Authorship examines the business of writing, publishing, and selling books - or what George V. Higgins describes in this volume as a "perplexing, disorganized, chameleonic enterprise". Twenty-three authors, publishing professionals, and scholars who share Matthew J. Bruccoli's love and knowledge of books offer candid observations and opinions about the past, present, and future of publishing. In doing so, they unravel many of the mysteries surrounding this tradition-bound endeavor.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570031444

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Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

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Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

“Epic indeed, this is the definitive biography of Fitzgerald, plain and simple. There’s no reason to own another.” —Library Journal The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” These works and more elevated F. Scott Fitzgerald to his place as one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. After struggling to become a screenwriter in Hollywood, Fitzgerald was working on The Last Tycoon when he died of a heart attack in 1940. He was only forty-four years old. Fitzgerald left behind his own mythology. He was a prince charming, a drunken author, a spoiled genius, the personification of the Jazz Age, and a sacrificial victim of the Depression. Here, Matthew J. Bruccoli strips away the façade of this flawed literary hero. He focuses on Fitzgerald as a writer by tracing the development of his major works and his professional career. Beginning with his Midwest upbringing and first published works as a teenager, this biography follows Fitzgerald’s life through the successful debut of This Side of Paradise, his turbulent marriage to Zelda Sayre, his time in Europe among The Lost Generation, the disappointing release of The Great Gatsby, and his ignominious fall. As former US poet laureate James Dickey said, “the spirit of the man is in the facts, and these, as gathered and marshalled by Bruccoli over thirty years, are all we will ever need. But more important, they are what we need.”

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Open Road Media

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1504075250

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The Professions of Authorship

Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

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Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

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The Composition of Tender is the Night

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

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The Composition of Tender is the Night

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

Working with the complete collection of Tender is the Night manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Matthew J. Bruccoli reconstructs seventeen drafts and three versions of the novel to answer questions about F. Scott Fitzgerald's major work that have long puzzled critics of modern literature. In 1934, nine years after the appearance of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald permitted publication of Tender is the Night. Disappointed by its critical reception, Fitzgerald suggested that the structure of the novel should be drastically rearranged. In 1951, eleven years after his death, Charles Scribner's Sons brought out an edition that incorporated Fitzgerald's changes. Controversy arose over the merits of the two published versions and over the "nine lost years" in Fitzgerald's life between his two great novels, years of rewriting before publication of Tender is the Night that resulted in six cartons of notes and drafts. After analyzing this wealth of material, Bruccoli reconstructs every working stage in the novel and reaches his own conclusions about which edition is the most valid.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822975548

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9780822975540

The O’Hara Concern

A Biography of John O’Hara

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

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The O’Hara Concern

A Biography of John O’Hara

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

The definitive biography of short story writer John O’Hara.

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472

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822974711

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9780822974710

Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time

A Guide for Students and Readers

By: Matthew Stewart

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Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time

A Guide for Students and Readers

By: Matthew Stewart

He includes a consideration of biographical and historical events that had a direct bearing on the work. Finally he places In Our Time in relation to later works by Hemingway, both those that grow out of it, and those that do not."--BOOK JACKET.

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158

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Camden House

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1571130179

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O Lost

A Story of the Buried Life

By: Thomas Wolfe,Arlyn Bruccoli,Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

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O Lost

A Story of the Buried Life

By: Thomas Wolfe,Arlyn Bruccoli,Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

Sixty-six thousand words were omitted for reasons of propriety and publishing economics, as well as to remove material deemed expendable by Perkins. Published for the first time on October 3, 2000 - the centenary of Wolfe's birth - O Lost presents the complete text of the novel's manuscript.".

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570033692

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9781570033698

Walter Wanger

Hollywood Independent

By: Matthew Bernstein

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Walter Wanger

Hollywood Independent

By: Matthew Bernstein

A portrait of the trailblazing film producer whose career spanned five decades."Bernstein packs an astonishing amount of solid film history into his lucid chronicle of Wangers whirlwind corporate liaisons. ... A fully realized, A-line biopic of a fascinating life in the movies."Tom Doherty, Film Quarterly.

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540

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452904685

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9781452904689

Censored

A Literary History of Subversion and Control

By: Matthew Fellion,Katherine Inglis

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A Literary History of Subversion and Control

By: Matthew Fellion,Katherine Inglis

When Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Émile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola’s French candour about sex – it was that Vizetelly’s books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them. Censored exposes the role that power plays in censorship. In twenty-five chapters focusing on a wide range of texts, including the Bible, slave narratives, modernist classics, comic books, and Chicana/o literature, Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis chart the forces that have driven censorship in the United Kingdom and the United States for over six hundred years, from fears of civil unrest and corruptible youth to the oppression of various groups – religious and political dissidents, same-sex lovers, the working class, immigrants, women, racialized people, and those who have been incarcerated or enslaved. The authors also consider the weight of speech, and when restraints might be justified. Rich with illustrations that bring to life the personalities and the books that feature in its stories, Censored takes readers behind the scenes into the courtroom battles, legislative debates, public campaigns, and private exchanges that have shaped the course of literature. A vital reminder that the freedom of speech has always been fragile and never enjoyed equally by all, Censored offers lessons from the past to guard against threats to literature in a new political era.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773551891

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9780773551893

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

By: Matthew Spady

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The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

By: Matthew Spady

Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscape The study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit. When John James Audubon bought fourteen acres of northern Manhattan farmland in 1841, he set in motion a chain of events that moved forward inexorably to the streetscape that emerged seven decades later. The story of how that happened makes up the pages of The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It. This fully illustrated history peels back the many layers of a rural society evolving into an urban community, enlivened by the people who propelled it forward: property owners, tenants, laborers, and servants. The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot tells the intricate tale of how individual choices in the face of family dysfunction, economic crises, technological developments, and the myriad daily occurrences that elicit personal reflection and change of course pushed Audubon Park forward to the cityscape that distinguishes the neighborhood today. A longtime evangelist for Manhattan’s Audubon Park neighborhood, author Matthew Spady delves deep into the lives of the two families most responsible over time for the anomalous arrangement of today’s streetscape: the Audubons and the Grinnells. Buoyed by his extensive research, Spady reveals the darker truth behind John James Audubon (1785–1851), a towering patriarch who consumed the lives of his family members in pursuit of his own goals. He then narrates how fifty years after Audubon’s death, George Bird Grinnell (1849–1938) and his siblings found themselves the owners of extensive property that was not yielding sufficient income to pay taxes, insurance, and maintenance. Like the Audubons, they planned an exit strategy for controlled change that would have an unexpected ending. Beginning with the Audubons’ return to America in 1839, The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot follows the many twists and turns of the area’s path from forest to city, ending in the twenty-first century with the Audubon name re-purposed in today’s historic district, a multiethnic, multi-racial urban neighborhood far removed from the homogeneous, Eurocentric Audubon Park suburb.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823289443

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9780823289448

Reader's Block

A History of Reading Differences

By: Matthew Rubery

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Reader's Block

A History of Reading Differences

By: Matthew Rubery

What does the term "reading" mean? Matthew Rubery's exploration of the influence neurodivergence has on the ways individuals read asks us to consider that there may be no one definition. This alternative history of reading tells the stories of "atypical" readers and the impact had on their lives by neurological conditions affecting their ability to make sense of the printed word: from dyslexia, hyperlexia, and alexia to synesthesia, hallucinations, and dementia. Rubery's focus on neurodiversity aims to transform our understanding of the very concept of reading. Drawing on personal testimonies gathered from literature, film, life writing, social media, medical case studies, and other sources to express how cognitive differences have shaped people's experiences both on and off the page, Rubery contends that there is no single activity known as reading. Instead, there are multiple ways of reading (and, for that matter, not reading) despite the ease with which we use the term. Pushing us to rethink what it means to read, Reader's Block moves toward an understanding of reading as a spectrum that is capacious enough to accommodate the full range of activities documented in this fascinating and highly original book. Read it from cover to cover, out of sequence, or piecemeal. Read it upside down, sideways, or in a mirror. For just as there is no right way to read, there is no right way to read this book. What matters is that you are doing something with it—something that Rubery proposes should be called "reading.

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Stanford University Press

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150363342X

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Nations of Nothing But Poetry

Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing

By: Matthew Hart

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Nations of Nothing But Poetry

Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing

By: Matthew Hart

Vernacular discourse from major to minor -- The impossibility of synthetic Scots; or, Hugh MacDiarmid's nationalist internationalism -- A dialect written in the spelling of the capital: Basil Bunting goes home -- Tradition and the postcolonial talent: T.S. Eliot versus E.K. Brathwaite -- Transnational anthems and the ship of state: Harryette Mullen, Melvin B. Tolson and the politics of afro-modernism -- Epilogue denationalizing Mina Loy.

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OUP USA

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0195390334

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9780195390339

Operation Chaos

The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves

By: Matthew Sweet

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Operation Chaos

The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves

By: Matthew Sweet

An untold Cold War story: how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of U.S. military deserters, a tale that leads from a bizarre political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They’re young, they’re radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even want to take the fight to America. The Swedes treat them like pop stars—but the CIA is determined to stop all that. It’s a job for the deep-cover men of Operation Chaos and their allies—agents who know how to infiltrate organizations and destroy them from inside. Within months, the GIs have turned their fire on one another. Then the interrogations begin—to discover who among them has been brainwashed, Manchurian Candidate-style, to assassinate their leaders. When Matthew Sweet began investigating this story, he thought the madness was over. He was wrong. Instead, he became the confidant of an eccentric and traumatized group of survivors—each with his own theory about the traitors in their midst. All Sweet has to do is find out the truth. And stay sane. Which may be difficult when one of his interviewees accuses him of being a CIA agent and another suspects that he’s part of a secret plot by the British royal family to start World War III. By that time, he’s deep in the labyrinth of truths and half-truths, wondering where reality ends and delusion begins.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1627794646

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9781627794640

Understanding Jonathan Lethem

By: Matthew Luter

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Understanding Jonathan Lethem

By: Matthew Luter

Understanding Jonathan Lethem is a study of the novels, short fiction, and nonfiction on a wide range of subjects in the arts by American novelist Jonathan Lethem, who is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Motherless Brooklyn, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel for Gun, with Occasional Music. Matthew Luter explores the key contemporaries of and influences on Lethem, who is the Roy Edward Disney Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College. Luter begins this volume by explaining how Lethem's innovative and provocative essay on creative appropriation, "The Ecstasy of Influence," differs from other writing about influence, suggesting an artistic mode that celebrates thoughtful borrowing. Readings of Lethem's three major novels follow: taken together, Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City present a novelist coming to terms with the joys and downsides of artistic influence. Luter concludes the edition with an examination of Lethem's third collection, Lucky Alan: And Other Stories. Borrowing openly and promiscuously from earlier traditions both high and low (experimental fiction, comic books, art film, detective novels), Lethem displays a career-long interest in questioning what literary originality might mean in a postmodern age. Some suggest that such borrowings indicate a literary well that has run dry, making writers such as Lethem mere patchwork artists. Luter argues instead that Lethem's propensity for wearing his influences and obsessions on his sleeve encourages new thought about originality itself. Out with "it's all been done" and in with "look at all that's been done, and all that we can still do with it!

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611175135

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9781611175134

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1994

By: Matthew Bruccoli

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Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1994

By: Matthew Bruccoli

Updates entries already published and supplements the Dictionary of Literary Biography series with entries on newly prominent writers.

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Dictionary of Literary Biograp

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0810357054

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9780810357051

Modern Classic Writers

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli,Judith Baughman

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Modern Classic Writers

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli,Judith Baughman

Describes the work of American writers from Faulkner to Wolfe and includes bibliographies of criticism

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The Professions of Authorship

The Professions of Authorship

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

The Professions of Authorship

The Professions of Authorship

The Composition of Tender is the Night

The Composition of Tender is the Night

The O’Hara Concern

The O’Hara Concern

Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time

Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time

O Lost

O Lost

Walter Wanger

Walter Wanger

Censored

Censored

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Reader's Block

Reader's Block

Nations of Nothing But Poetry

Nations of Nothing But Poetry

Operation Chaos

Operation Chaos

Understanding Jonathan Lethem

Understanding Jonathan Lethem

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1994

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1994

Modern Classic Writers

Modern Classic Writers

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