Vanity fair's writers on writers
By: edited by Graydon Carter ; with an introduction by David Friend
Publisher: Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780143111764
Subjects: Literary collections; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Biography; Authors
Other titles: Writers on writers; Vanity fair (New York, N.Y. : 1983)
Description: Offers essays from Vanity Fair writers on specific authors, explaining their influence on other writers and the culture at large.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by David Friend; title: One Vanity Fair contrarian fondly recalls another. Dorothy Parker / by Christopher Hitchens; title: On poets. W. H. Auden / by Joseph Brodsky; title: E. E. Cummings / by Susan Cheever; title: Marianne Moore / by Elizabeth Bishop; title: On literary lions. Eudora Welty / by Willie Morris; title: Reynolds Price / by Anne Tyler; title: Saul Bellow / by Martin Amis; title: Jack Kerouac / by James Wolcott; title: Truman Capote / by Sam Kashner; title: Norman Mailer / by Patricia Bosworth; title: Ernest Hemingway / by A. Scott Berg; title: Tom Wolfe / by Michael Lewis; title: Distant shores. Paul Bowles / by Jay McInerney; title: Gabriel García Márquez / by Paul Elie; title: Primo Levi / by James Atlas; title: Naguib Mahfouz / by Christopher Dickey; title: Salman Rushdie / by Martin Amis; title: Short takes. Willa Cather / by Truman Capote; title: James Baldwin / by Jacqueline Woodson; title: Roger Straus / by Tom Wolfe; title: Ward Just / by David Halberstam; title: Toni Morrison / by John Leonard; title: Ishmael Beah / by Dave Eggers; title: Robert Harris / by Nick Hornby; title: Judy Blume / by Meg Wolitzer; title: Wole Soyinka / by Nadine Gordimer; title: Sonny Mehta / by Dave Eggers; title: Christopher Hitchens / by Salman Rushdie; title: A family affair. Joan Didion / by Lili Anolik; title: John Gregory Dunne / by Dominick Dunne; title: Dominick Dunne / by Mike Hogan; title: Behind the best-sellers. Josephine Tey / by Francis Wheen; title: Grace Metalious / by Michael Callahan; title: Mary McCarthy / by Laura Jacobs; title: Jacqueline Susann / by Amy Fine Collins; title: Cormac McCarthy / by Richard B. Woodward; title: Stieg Larsson / by Christopher Hitchens; title: James Patterson / by Todd S. Purdum; title: Donna Tartt / by Evgenia Peretz; title: Memoir. Bosom Buddies / by Laura Z. Hobson; title: His Jewish question / by Arthur Miller; title: Darkness visible / by William Styron; title: A final tale. Kay Thompson / by Marie Brenner.