Title: Pandora's handbag :
Authors: Young, Elizabeth,
Date: 2001
Publisher: Serpent's Tail,
Physical description: xviii, 366 pages ; 20 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: This collection chronicles the journey of a modern arts critic and Young's personal journey from childhood to critic. Each previously published article is presented with additional notes.
Contents: Introduction / Will Self -- Introduction: How people become writers, although they shouldn't -- America and literature -- The hunter gets captured by the game -- The west is the best? -- Guilty of everything: Interview with Herbert Huncke -- Literary outlaw: The Life and Times of William Burroughs / Ted Morgan -- Jane Bowles: Gnawing at the bone of our lives -- Diamanda Galas at the Shepherd's Bush Empire -- Alice Munro: Open Secrets -- Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho -- Bret Easton Ellis: The Informers -- On Glamorama / Bret Easton Ellis -- Dead Elvis: A chronicle of a cultural obsession / Greil Marcus -- Venom: Turtle Moon / Alice Hoffman -- Pigs in Heaven / Barbara Kingsolver -- The Magician's Assistant / Ann Patchett -- What's the story?--Edward Gorey -- Dennis Cooper: Closer -- Robert Mapplethorpe: A biography / Patricia Morriswroe -- Interview with T. Coraghessan Boyle -- The End of Alice / A. M. Homes -- Interview with Pamela Des Barres: For the good times -- I reject the US--at last -- Writing columns -- Too serious--not serious enough -- Rough trade kitty -- The passion flower failure -- We don't want to think about it -- A kind of reading -- I'm against Nature, me ... -- It could have been me! -- The agony of losing your looks / Ligeia Winter -- Conspiracy Theory -- Mack!--The Knife -- In the bag -- Drugs and drugs and rock 'n' roll and some sex -- Methadone in their madness -- Chaos theory: Drugs International plc -- The Case of Anna Kavan / David Callard -- Rock biographies.
Subject headings (LCSH): American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.; English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.