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    Writing in America

    John Fischer (Edited by), Robert B. Silvers (Edited by), John Fischer (Contributions by), Robert B. Silvers (Contributions by), Mason W. Gross (Contributions by), Alfred Kazin (Contributions by), Budd Schulberg (Contributions by), Elizabeth Hardwick (Contributions by), Frank Yerby (Contributions by), Vance Bourjaily (Contributions by), Archibald MacLeish (Contributions by), C. P. Snow (Contributions by), Robert Brustein (Contributions by), Stanley Kunitz (Contributions by), Kingsley Amis (Contributions by)

    9780813598444

    Paperback / softback, published 23 July 2018

    200 pages
    20.3 x 13.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.017 kg

    "You could say the inspiration for The [New York] Review of Books went back even further, to 1959 and Elizabeth Hardwick’s “The Decline of Book Reviewing” in Harper’s. That essay is crucial."

     
    - Robert Silvers (editor and cofounder of the New York Review of Books)
    "A true classic offering timeless yet timely commentaries and insights into the art and craft of writing."
    (Midwest Book Review)

    In the fall of 1959, Harper’s 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.   

    Contents
    The Wider and Wiser Use of Books
    Mason Gross
    The Alone Generation: A Comment on the Fiction of the Fifties
    Alfred Kazin
    Poetry’
    s Silver Age: An Improbable Dialogue
    Stanley Kunitz
    Why American Plays Are Not Literature
    Robert Brustein          
    The Decline of Book Reviewing
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    Who Needs No Introduction
    Kingsley Amis
    Which Side of the Atlantic?
    C. P. Snow     
    On the Teaching of Writing
    Archibald MacLeish
    The Writer and Hollywood
    Budd Schulberg
    The Lost Art of Writing for Television
    Vance Bourjaily
    How and Why I Write the Costume Novel
    Frank Yerby   
    Writers and Their Editors: Notes on an Uneasy Marriage
    John Fischer
    Letter to a Young Man About to Enter Publishing
    Anonymous
    Two View of the Reviews
    About the Contributors
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