The company they kept
Subtitle: great writers on friendship
By: edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein ; introduction by Robert B. Silvers.
Contributors: Silvers, Robert B.; Epstein, Barbara, 1929-
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Celebrities -- Biography.; Authors -- Biography.; Friendship.; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Biography -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: 27 contributors to The New York Review of Books tell of their deep and abiding friendships with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature.
Table of contents: title: Stanley Kunitz on Theodore Roethke; title: Robert Lowell on Randall Jarrell; title: Edward Dahlberg on Hart Crane; title: Robert Oppenheimer on Albert Einstein; title: Dwight MacDonald on Delmore Schwartz; title: Alfred Kazin on Josephine Herbst; title: Jason Epstein on Edmund Wilson; title: Susan Sontag on Paul Goodman; title: Anna Akhmatova on Amedeo Modigliani; title: Robert Craft on Stravinsky; title: Saul Bellow on John Cheever; title: Mary McCarthy on F.W. Dupee; title: Derek Walcott on Robert Lowell; title: Darryl Pinckney on Djuna Barnes; title: Maurice Grosser on Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas; title: Prudence Crowther on S.J. Perelman; title: Michael Ignatieff on Bruce Catwin; title: Joseph Brodsky on Isaiah Berlin; title: Caroline Blackwood on Francis Bacon; title: Elizabeth Hardwick on Mary McCarthy; title: Tatyana Tolstaya on Joseph Brodsky; title: Enrique Krauze on Octavio Paz; title: Richard Seaver on Jerome Lindon; title: Seamus Heaney on Thomas Flanagan; title: Larry McMurtry on Ken Kesey; title: Brad Leithauser on Anthony Hecht; title: Oliver Sacks on Francis Crick.