The Tolstoy of the zulus
Subtitle: on culture, arts & letters
By: Stephen Kessler
Publisher: El León Literary Arts
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780979528583
Subjects: Criticism; Civilization; Art criticism
Other titles: Redwood Coast Review.
Notes: Essays originally published in various journals including Redwood Coast Review.
Table of contents: title: Culture: Terror, propaganda and imagination; title: Violins vs. violence (the madness of art); title: Satanic realism; title: Literature, unplugged; title: Save the letter; title: In praise of the postcard; title: Google's library of Babel; title: The trouble with publishing; title: Writers on strike?; title: A screen of one's own; title: Armageddon will be televised; title: Hollywood Wax Museum; title: Disneyland revisited; title: Manson demystified; title: Not a pretty picture: Esquire in the sixties; title: Dylanography; title: Beauty's truths; title: Arts: The discreet charm of Luis Buñuel; title: Keat's star turn; title: Grave new world; title: A whale of a monster movie; title: Mary Holmes, 1910-2002; title: Museum mysteries: a self-guided tour; title: Bearden's burden; title: City light: Edward Hopper in San Francisco; title: Net art man: Stan Fullerton; title: The Nutzle enigma; title: Vidstrand is a many-stranded thing; title: Chips off the old Watts; title: Robert Gold, Bohemian everyman; title: Uneasy listening; title: Monk's wake; title: Exaltation at Zellerbach: Sonny Rollins rising; title: Sympathy for the Stones; title: The integrated man: Harry Belafonte; title: Lonesome traveler: Bob Dylan at 60; title: Letters: American colossus: Henry Miller; title: The Tolstoy of the Zulus: Saul Bellow; title: Lost illusions: Philip Roth; title: Humanstein: Bellow and Roth; title: Nonprophets: Roth and Dylan; title: Three bad dudes: Jerome Washington, Pete Hamill, Marlon Brando; title: Tough guy tells all: Charles Bukowski; title: Salinger's masterpiece: fifty years of silence; title: Beyond good and evil: Thomas Keneally; title: Nietzsche's headshrinker: Irvin Yalom; title: Never believe what you think: Carlos Fuentes; title: Marriage of true minds: Page and Eloise Smith; title: California realist: James D. Houston; title: An amazing man: Morton Marcus; title: Bard under the radar: Greg Hall; title: An unknown writer: Richard P. Brickner; title: George Hitchcock, Jorge-of-all-trades; title: All the fictions fit to print.