{"product_id":"writing-in-america-paperback-softback-9780813598444","title":"Writing in America (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813598444","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWriting in America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn 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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813598444\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 July 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 13.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.017 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"You could say the inspiration for \u003ci\u003eThe [New York] Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003ewent back even further, to 1959 and Elizabeth Hardwick’s “\u003ca href='\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/1959\/10\/the-decline-of-book-reviewing\/\"' target='\"new\"'\u003eThe Decline of Book Reviewing\u003c\/a\u003e” in \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e. That essay is crucial.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - Robert Silvers (editor and cofounder of the New York Review of Books) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A true classic offering timeless yet timely commentaries and insights into the art and craft of writing.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Midwest Book Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn the fall of 1959,\u003ci\u003e Harper’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this newly reissued volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint, \u003ci\u003eWriting in America\u003c\/i\u003e 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.   \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e The Wider and Wiser Use of Books\u003cbr\u003e Mason Gross\u003cbr\u003e The Alone Generation: A Comment on the Fiction of the Fifties\u003cbr\u003e Alfred Kazin\u003cbr\u003e Poetry’\u003cbr\u003es Silver Age: An Improbable Dialogue\u003cbr\u003e Stanley Kunitz\u003cbr\u003e Why American Plays Are Not Literature\u003cbr\u003e Robert Brustein          \u003cbr\u003e The Decline of Book Reviewing\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Hardwick\u003cbr\u003e Who Needs No Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Kingsley Amis\u003cbr\u003e Which Side of the Atlantic?\u003cbr\u003e C. P. Snow     \u003cbr\u003e On the Teaching of Writing\u003cbr\u003e Archibald MacLeish\u003cbr\u003e The Writer and Hollywood\u003cbr\u003e Budd Schulberg\u003cbr\u003e The Lost Art of Writing for Television\u003cbr\u003e Vance Bourjaily\u003cbr\u003e How and Why I Write the Costume Novel\u003cbr\u003e Frank Yerby   \u003cbr\u003e Writers and Their Editors: Notes on an Uneasy Marriage\u003cbr\u003e John Fischer\u003cbr\u003e Letter to a Young Man About to Enter Publishing\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous\u003cbr\u003e Two View of the Reviews\u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press Classics","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563730235672,"sku":"9780813598444","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/writing-in-america-paperback-softback-9780813598444","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}