Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, hellman, lillian
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1986-10-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0878052933
ISBN-13: 9780878052936

This volume includes twenty-six conversations with Lillian Hellman, ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through extended talks with her which appears in the Paris Review, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, down to her last interviews in the early 1980s.In all these interviews, Miss Hellman gives her own account of her eventful and exciting life, her evaluations and analyses of her plays and accounts of how and why they came to be written. Throughout, her views are expressed with the pungency, directness, honesty, and wit which made Lillian He

Author: Matthew J. Bruccoli
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, hemingway, ernest
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1986-12-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0878052739
ISBN-13: 9780878052738

Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, wilder, thornton
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0878055142
ISBN-13: 9780878055142

Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America’s most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. This collection of interviews with Wilder covers the full range of his sixty-year career as one of America’s leading men of letters. In addition to American interviews, this book includes translations of interviews published originally in French and German that have never appeared in English previously. It includes a transcription of a rare radio interview conducted by Rex St

Author: Leland Poague
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, sontag, susan
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1995-12-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0878058346
ISBN-13: 9780878058341

Covering the period from 1967 to 1993, this collection of interviews gives attention to Sontag’s education--Berkeley, Oxford, Harvard, the Sorbonne--and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, and covers Sontag’s rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist and cultural critic.

Author: Bert Cardullo
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, kaufmann, stanley
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1578065666
ISBN-13: 9781578065660

This collection of interviews with Stanley Kauffmann (b. 1916) provides a virtual history of the journalistic practice of criticism in twentieth-century America. His creative life spans eight decades, and since 1958, he has been a film and drama critic for the New Republic, the New York Times, and Saturday Review. He also has been an actor, stage manager, playwright, novelist, and editor. Along with Dwight Macdonald, Andrew Sarris, and John Simon, he is one of the potent, influential critics included in the New York school of twentieth-century American criticism. In this collection of i

Author: Matthew C. Roudané
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, miller, arthur
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 1987-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0878053239
ISBN-13: 9780878053230

Arthur Miller clearly enjoys militantly civil conversation. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Miller in interview is his willingness to answer question after question with grace and substance, with a sense of social commitment and metaphysical curiosity. These interviews complement the plays and his more formal and well-known theater essays, revealing his dramatic and aesthetic theories, his concern with language and structure, his awareness of the inner reality of his characters and how these concerns broaden to highlight universal social and metaphysical issues. Miller

Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, kerouac, jack
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005-04-28
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1578067561
ISBN-13: 9781578067565

There are few writers about whom it can be said that they write just like they speak, but Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) is clearly one of them. In 1958, Kerouac was a struggling writer trying to create a new literary aesthetic based on the rhythms of human speech, jazz-based improvisation, autobiography, and American slang. That year saw the publication of his second novel On the Road, which would instantly propel him to fame and ensconce him in the literary establishment. By 1969, he was dead of internal hemorrhaging brought on by excessive drinking. Though his literary reputation may have faded,