Book
Vanity fair's writers on writers
Publication Information
New York : Penguin Books, [2016].
Physical Description
viii, 424 pages ; 24 cm.
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Summary
Offers essays from Vanity Fair writers on specific authors, explaining their influence on other writers and the culture at large.
Contents
- Introduction / by David Friend
- One Vanity Fair contrarian fondly recalls another. Dorothy Parker / by Christopher Hitchens
- On poets. W. H. Auden / by Joseph Brodsky
- E. E. Cummings / by Susan Cheever
- Marianne Moore / by Elizabeth Bishop
- On literary lions. Eudora Welty / by Willie Morris
- Reynolds Price / by Anne Tyler
- Saul Bellow / by Martin Amis
- Jack Kerouac / by James Wolcott
- Truman Capote / by Sam Kashner
- Norman Mailer / by Patricia Bosworth
- Ernest Hemingway / by A. Scott Berg
- Tom Wolfe / by Michael Lewis
- Distant shores. Paul Bowles / by Jay McInerney
- Gabriel García Márquez / by Paul Elie
- Primo Levi / by James Atlas
- Naguib Mahfouz / by Christopher Dickey
- Salman Rushdie / by Martin Amis
- Short takes. Willa Cather / by Truman Capote
- James Baldwin / by Jacqueline Woodson
- Roger Straus / by Tom Wolfe
- Ward Just / by David Halberstam
- Toni Morrison / by John Leonard
- Ishmael Beah / by Dave Eggers
- Robert Harris / by Nick Hornby
- Judy Blume / by Meg Wolitzer
- Wole Soyinka / by Nadine Gordimer
- Sonny Mehta / by Dave Eggers
- Christopher Hitchens / by Salman Rushdie
- A family affair. Joan Didion / by Lili Anolik
- John Gregory Dunne / by Dominick Dunne
- Dominick Dunne / by Mike Hogan
- Behind the best-sellers. Josephine Tey / by Francis Wheen
- Grace Metalious / by Michael Callahan
- Mary McCarthy / by Laura Jacobs
- Jacqueline Susann / by Amy Fine Collins
- Cormac McCarthy / by Richard B. Woodward
- Stieg Larsson / by Christopher Hitchens
- James Patterson / by Todd S. Purdum
- Donna Tartt / by Evgenia Peretz
- Memoir. Bosom Buddies / by Laura Z. Hobson
- His Jewish question / by Arthur Miller
- Darkness visible / by William Styron
- A final tale. Kay Thompson / by Marie Brenner.