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Writing in America

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In the fall of 1959, Harpers Magazine published a special supplement on the state of writing and the American literary scene. The supplement was greeted with a broadside of commendation and a fusillade of cavil, and has since become recognized as the most useful brief survey of the contemporary state of the American writing arts and of their fellow travelers, the spoken word, the typescript word, the filmed and televised word, and the publishing memorandum. 

In this newly reissued volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint, Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960. Here, writers including Robert Brustein, Stanley Kunitz, and C.P. Snow examine the state of writing in American novels, films, and television candidly and critically. The result is a collection of essays that showcase a first-rate and highly entertaining piece of reporting on the American literary scene that resonate in 2017.    See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 3g
  • Dimensions: 132 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Jul 2018
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780813598451

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JOHN FISCHER (1910-1978) was a lifelong writer and editor. His work appeared in Life The New Yorker Readers Digest among other publications and he was a reporter for both AP and UPI. He served as editor-in-chief of Harpers Magazine from 1953 to 1967 and as contributing editor thereafter. Another Harpers editor Lewis Lapham memorialized him: He made the magazine an instrument of rigorous social inquiry publishing much of the best and most constructive political thought of his era. ROBERT B. SILVERS (1929 - 2017) was an editorial board member for Harpers Magazine and co-founder and editor of The New York Review of Books from 1963 to 2017 co-editing it with Barbara Epstein for 43 years until her death in 2006. He received many awards and accolades including the National Book Foundations Literarian Award the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing and a National Humanities Medal. Among other honors he was a Chevalier of the French Légion dhonneur and a member of the French Ordre National du Mérite. He was awarded the 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

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