Stretching my mind
By: Edward Albee
Edition: 1st Carrol & Graf ed
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Albee, Edward, -- 1928-; Theater -- United States -- 20th century; Art -- 20th century; Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Work titles: Selections.
Description: "Stretching My Mind collects for the first time the author's writings on theater, literature, the visual arts, and the political and cultural battlegrounds that have defined our times. Albee also explores charged topics such as government repression, censorship in the arts, and cultural literacy. On a more intimate level, Albee writes about his early home life, discusses in depth his body of work, and shares his perceptive worldviews."--Jacket.
Notes: A collection of forty-two "occasional pieces." -- Foreword
Table of contents: title: On "The zoo story," 1960; title: Which theater is the absurd one?, 1962; title: Some notes on nonconformity, 1962; title: Broadway excesses, 1962; title: Carson McCullers, 1963; title: Lillian Ross, 1963; title: Ad libs on theater, 1965; title: Noël Coward, 1965; title: James Purdy, 1966; title: Creativity and commitment, 1966; title: Future belongs to youth, 1967; title: Apartheid in the theater, 1967; title: Decade of engagement, 1970; title: Milton Avery, 1978; title: Louise Nevelson, 1980; title: Conversation with "Catch," 1981; title: Mia Westerlund Roosen, 1982; title: Informed joy, 1988; title: It is the dark we have to fear, 1989; title: Lee Krasner, 1990; title: John Duff, 1990; title: Robert Juarez, 1990; title: "Instinctive tingle", 1990; title: Zero Higashida, 1991; title: Eugene Ionesco, 1992; title: Alan Schneider, 1992; title: Jonathan Thomas, 1993; title: Some thoughts on sculpture, 1993; title: On "Three tall women," 1994; title: Thirty-five years on, 1996; title: "A delicate balance": a nonreconsideration, 1996; title: Interview with Steve Capra, 1996; title: A playwright's adventures in the visual arts, 1997; title: Speech to the American Council for the Arts, 1998; title: Betty Parsons: a conversation with Edward Albee, Jonathan Thomas, and Anne Cohen DePietro, 1998; title: Mrs. de Menil's liquor closet, 1999; title: Context is all: excerpts from a conversation with Jonathan Thomas and Harry Rand, 2000; title: Tony Rosenthal, 2003; title: Uta Hagen, 2004; title: Read plays?, 2004; title: About this goat, 2004; title: Borrowed time: an interview with Stephen Bottoms, 2005