"that lettrous mountain of friendship"
Subtitle: the selected letters of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946
By: Bradley Lubin, editor
Contributors: Kael, Pauline, correspondent, recipient; Alcalay, Ammiel, editor of series; Mangum, Megan, book designer; City University of New York. Center for the Humanities
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 4, number 4, Fall 2013; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 4, number 4.
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Correspondence; Film critics; American Poets
Other titles: That lettrous mountain of friendship :
Description: "Pauline Kael and Robert Duncan met in the 1930s as students at the University of California-Berkeley. After both dropped out, they maintained a six year correspondence recording the trials, excitements, and discoveries of life after Berkeley. The Selected Letters, 1945-46 captures their singular friendship and the mutual interests and sensibilities that united them. Highlights include a dialogue on reading Herman Melville’s Pierre; reflections by Duncan on farm-life in Northern California; notes on his preparation of his manuscript The Years as Catches and Kael’s work on a play; and from New York, Kael’s reportage on art-shows, films, music, and discussion meetings tied to Dwight Macdonald’s journal Politics." --Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

"Pauline Kael (1919-2001) was the lead film critic for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991 and one of the reigning voices in American film criticism. Books by Kael include the bestseller I Lost it at the Movies (1965), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968), the National Book Award Winner Deeper into Movies (1974), and The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael (2011), edited by Sanford Schwartz for the Library of America." --Publisher's website.

"Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was an American poet and key presence in post-War arts and letters. His works of poetry include The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), Bending the Bow (1968), and Ground Work: Before the War/In the Dark (2006). The Collected Works of Robert Duncan are currently being published by the University of California Press." --Publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: Part I:; title: Introduction --; title: Editor's note --; title: The selected correspondence of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946 (Part I) --; title: Endnotes --; title: Biographical notes ; -- Part II:; title: The selected correspondence of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946 (Part II) --; title: Endnotes --; title: Biographical notes.