Beat Writers at Work: The Paris Review (Modern Library (Paperback)) - Softcover

Paris Review, Paris Review

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375752153 ISBN 13: 9780375752155

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1999

Synopsis

Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The modern Library of the world s Best Books . Its paperback series feature treasured classics, major translations of great works, and rediscoveries of keen literary and historical merit. Featuring introductions by leading writers, stunning translations, scholarly endnotes and reading group guides. Production values emphasize superior quality and readability. Competitive prices, coupled with exciting cover design make these an ideal gift to be cherished by the avid reader. From the pages of The Paris Review and edited by George Plimpton, the "Writers at Work" interviews, with the great figures of the Beat and Black Mountain movements. Mr. Plimpton and his able cohorts at The Paris Review have cannily chosen this historical moment for the retrieval of this archive, viz., the fortieth anniversary of Kerouac's masterpiece, and also the recent departures of Ginsberg and Burroughs to celestial addresses, and thus we have a real warts-and-all retrospective, ex post facto, Kerouac in the late sixties, Ginsberg (in one of two pieces here) in the late seventies, Bowles in the eighties, Snyder in the nineties, so that the high period of Beat style is well past at the time of these conversations; Plimpton's wisdom here amounts to permitting the language and form of these interviews to persist over the years and thereby accrue historical context, in which we are enabled to see how the Beat praxis (or Black Mountain praxis) is reactive when faced with such forces as Vietnam, hippie culture, eighties consumerism, neglect by literary history, and so forth." --from the Introduction by Rick Moody ,William Burroughs (1965)

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Review

From the pages of The Paris Review and
edited by George Plimpton, the "Writers at Work" interviews, with the great figures of the Beat
and Black Mountain movements

" Mr. Plimpton and his able cohorts at The Paris Review have cannily chosen this historical moment for the retrieval of this archive, viz., the fortieth anniversary of Kerouac's masterpiece, and also the recent departures of Ginsberg and Burroughs to celestial addresses, and thus we have a real warts-and-all retrospective, ex post facto, Kerouac in the late sixties, Ginsberg (in one of two pieces here) in the late seventies, Bowles in the eighties, Snyder in the nineties, so that the high period of Beat style is well past at the time of these conversations; Plimpton's wisdom here amounts to permitting the language and form of these interviews to persist over the years and thereby accrue historical context, in which we are enabled to see how the Beat praxis (or Black Mountain praxis) is reactive when faced with such forces as Vietnam, hippie culture, eighties consumerism, neglect by literary history, and so forth."
--from the Introduction by Rick MoodyIntroduction by Rick Moody, William Burroughs (1965)

Allen Ginsberg (1966), Robert Creely (1968), Jack Kerouac (1968)
Charles Olson (1970), Voznesensky, Ginsberg, Orlovsky (1980)
Paul Bowles (1981), Ken Kesey (1994)
A Semester with Allen Ginsberg (1995), Gary Snyder (1996)
Barney Rosset (1997), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1998)

Read Women Writers at Work in the same series

Synopsis

This is a collection of interviews with Beat and Black Mountain writers taken from the pages of The Paris Review. Included are interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey and Denise Leverton.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375752153
• ISBN 13: 9780375752155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Plimpton George