Author: Henry MillerPublisher: Constable Limited
ISBN: 9780094757707
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Henry Miller and James Laughlin
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: Constable Limited
ISBN: 9780094757707
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Henry Miller and James Laughlin
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393038644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A sparkling, lively record of a remarkable author/publisher relationship.
Sunday After the War
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122404X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
"I always carry over 40,000 gold francs about with me in my belt. They weight about 40 pounds, and I am beginning to get dysentery from the load." A collection of stories and excerpts from longer works.
Henry Miller on Writing
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201124
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and how he learned to draw on his own experience.
"Literchoor Is My Beat"
Author: Ian S. MacNivenPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374712433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
A biography—thoughtful and playful—of the man who founded New Directions and transformed American publishing James Laughlin—poet, publisher, world-class skier—was the man behind some of the most daring, revolutionary works in verse and prose of the twentieth century. As the founder of New Directions, he published Ezra Pound's The Cantos and William Carlos Williams's Paterson; he brought Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges to an American audience. Throughout his life, this tall, charismatic intellectual, athlete, and entrepreneur preferred to stay hidden. But no longer—in "Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions, Ian S. MacNiven has given us a sensitive and revealing portrait of this visionary and the understory of the last century of American letters. Laughlin—or J, as MacNiven calls him—emerges as an impressive and complex figure: energetic, idealistic, and hardworking, but also plagued by doubts—not about his ability to identify and nurture talent but about his own worth as a writer. Haunted by his father's struggles with bipolar disorder, J threw himself into a flurry of activity, pulling together the first New Directions anthology before he'd graduated from Harvard and purchasing and managing a ski resort in Utah. MacNiven's portrait is comprehensive and vital, spiced with Ezra Pound's eccentric letters, J's romantic foibles, and anecdotes from a seat-of-your-pants era of publishing now gone by. A story about the struggle to publish only the best, it is itself an example of literary biography at its finest.
The Books in My Life
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201087
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
New Directions
Author: Peter GlassgoldPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811206341
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Owl of Minerva
Author: James LaughlinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556590047
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
The Henry Miller Reader
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence Durrell.
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219704
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. In his great triptych “The Millennium,” Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller’s title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller’s life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place—one of the most colorful in the United States—and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (and writers who did not write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (and the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children and adult innocents; geniuses, cranks and the unclassifiable, like Conrad Moricand, the “Devil in Paradise” who is one of Miller’s greatest character studies. Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy and brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But this is also a serious book—the testament of a free spirit who has broken through the restraints and clichés of modern life to find within himself his own kind of paradise.