Title: New selected essays : where I live /
Authors: Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.; Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.; Bak, John S.; New Directions Publishing.
Publisher: New Directions Book,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Essays.
Contents: "Amor perdido" or How it feels to become a professional playwright -- Te morituri salutamus or An author's address to a first night audience -- Preface to my poems -- The history of a play (with parentheses) -- Notes to the reader -- The author tells why it is called The glass menagerie -- A playwright's statement on Dallas's Theatre '45 plans -- The catastrophe of success -- Chicago arrival -- Questions without answers -- "Something wild ..." -- Carson McCullers's Reflections in a golden eye -- A writer's quest for a Parnassus -- The timeless world of a play -- The meaning of The rose tattoo -- Facts about me -- Foreword to Camino Real -- Afterword to Camino Real -- Person-to-person -- Critic says "evasion," writer says "mystery" -- The past, the present, and the perhaps -- The world I live in -- Author and director : a delicate situation -- If the writing is honest -- Foreword to Sweet bird of youth -- The man in the overstuffed chair -- Reflections on a revival of a controversial fantasy -- Tennessee Williams presents his POV -- Prelude to a comedy -- Five fiery ladies -- Carson McCullers -- A summer of discovery -- The agent as catalyst -- T. Williams's view of T. Bankhead -- Grand -- Slapstick tragedy : a preface -- The wolf and I -- Happiness is relevant -- "Tennessee, never talk to an actress" -- We are dissenters now -- Too personal? -- Homage to Key West -- Let me hang it all out -- Where my head is now and other questions -- The blessings and mixed blessings of workshop productions -- I have rewritten a play for artistic purity -- I am widely regarded as the ghost of a writer -- The misunderstandings and fear of an artist's revolt.