Description
Book SynopsisIn this newly released volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint,
Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960, and offers a range of provocative topics by diverse writers. The essays in this collection showcase a first-rate and highly entertaining piece of reporting on the American literary scene that still resonate in 2017.
Trade Review"You could say the inspiration for
The [New York] Review of Books went back even further, to 1959 and Elizabeth Hardwick’s “The Decline of Book Reviewing” in
Harper’s. That essay is crucial."
-- Robert Silvers * editor and cofounder of the New York Review of Books *
"A true classic offering timeless yet timely commentaries and insights into the art and craft of writing." * Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsContents
The Wider and Wiser Use of Books
Mason Gross
The Alone Generation: A Comment on the Fiction of the Fifties
Alfred Kazin
Poetry’s Silver Age: An Improbable Dialogue
Stanley Kunitz
Why American Plays Are Not Literature
Robert Brustein
The Decline of Book Reviewing
Elizabeth Hardwick
Who Needs No Introduction
Kingsley Amis
Which Side of the Atlantic?
C. P. Snow
On the Teaching of Writing
Archibald MacLeish
The Writer and Hollywood
Budd Schulberg
The Lost Art of Writing for Television
Vance Bourjaily
How and Why I Write the Costume Novel
Frank Yerby
Writers and Their Editors: Notes on an Uneasy Marriage
John Fischer
Letter to a Young Man About to Enter Publishing
Anonymous
Two View of the Reviews
About the Contributors
