{"product_id":"syncopations-9780520252370","title":"Syncopations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of profiles and essays, which proffers observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s period. It considers writers associated with the New Yorker magazine, including John Updike, William Maxwell, Truman Capote, and Jonathan Franzen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Syncopations' should interest any observer of postwar American letters.\" -- Sam Munson New York Times Book Review \"[Campbell's] best pieces deftly and economically capture the essence of their subjects, measuring the particular 'syncopations' that distinguish their work.\" -- Bharat Tandon Times Literary Supplement (TLS) \"The object is neither to titillate nor to shock - though certain of Mr. Campbell's profiles do both - but to illumine. And this they accomplish splendidly.\" -- Eric Ormsby New York Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Acknowledgments  PART I NEW YORK NEW YORKERS  1. Sunshine and Shadows: AProfile of John Updike 2. Updike's Village Sex 3. William Maxwell's Lives 4. Notes from a Small Island: AProfile of Shirley Hazzard 5. Love, Truman: Capote's Letters and Stories 6. Franzen, Oprah, and High Art 7. Drawing Pains: A Profile of Art Spiegelman 8. Listening in the Dark: AProfile of William Styron  PART II THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE  9. I Heard It through the Grapevine: James Baldwin and the FBI 10. The Island Affair: Richard Wright's Unpublished Last Novel 11. The Man Who Cried: John A. Williams 12. All That Jive: Stanley Crouch 13. Love Lost: Toni Morrison 14. The Rhetoric of Rage: AProfile of Amiri Baraka  PART III SYNCOPATIONS 15. High Peak Haikus: AProfile of Gary Snyder 16. Between Moving Air and Moving Ocean: Thom Gunn and Gary Snyder 17. Was That a Real Poem?: Robert Creeley 18. Fifty Years of \"Howl\" 19. Personal\/Political: AProfile of Edmund White 20. To Beat the Bible: AProfile of J. P. Donleavy 21. The Making of a Monster: Alexander Trocchi 22. Travels with RLS  Coda: Boswell and Mrs. Miller; A Memoir of Two Tongues","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402830455127,"sku":"9780520252370","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520252370.jpg?v=1730481631","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/syncopations-9780520252370","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}