Conversations with Malcolm Cowley

Cowley, Malcolm; Thomas Daniel Young (editor)

ISBN 10: 0878052909 / ISBN 13: 9780878052905

Published by Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 1986

8vo, 224 pp., Spine of dust jacket slightly faded, else fine., Literary Conversations series. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 082372

Synopsis:

This collection of twenty-one unabridged interviews puts us immediately in the company of one of the presiding literary figures of our times. This revered editor, poet, literary historian, and critic encapsulates seven decades of American literature in these conversations that took place between 1942 and 1985.

Full of insights and strong opinions, direct, salty, Cowley converses candidly with his interviewers about himself and about many subjects and personages that have shaped our national literature in the last century.

Throughout this volume Cowley gives vivid accounts of his close alliances with such widely diverse and individual authors as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, John Cheever, Jack Kerouac, and Ken Kesey.

From these interviews emerges a literary man who inspires the reader's renewed admiration and gratitude. In the common bond uniting great authors Cowley sees the manifestation of a Republic of Letters with laws, intelligence, and confraternity. These magnificently articulate interviews leave little doubt that Cowley is its elder statesman.

Synopsis: A collection of interviews with Cowley over the long course of his career as literary critic documents his opinions on the study and teaching of writing, the role of literature, Faulkner, and U.S. intellectual history.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st.