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"that lettrous mountain of friendship" : the selected letters of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946
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"Pauline Kael and Robert Duncan met in the 1930s as students at the University of California-Berkeley. After both dropped out, they maintained a six year correspondence recording the trials, excite...
"Pauline Kael and Robert Duncan met in the 1930s as students at the University of California-Berkeley. After both dropped out, they maintained a six year correspondence recording the trials, excitements, and discoveries of life after Berkeley. The Selected Letters, 1945-46 captures their singular friendship and the mutual interests and sensibilities that united them. Highlights include a dialogue on reading Herman Melville's Pierre; reflections by Duncan on farm-life in Northern California; notes on his preparation of his manuscript The Years as Catches and Kael's work on a play; and from New York, Kael's reportage on art-shows, films, music, and discussion meetings tied to Dwight Macdonald's journal Politics." --Publisher's website.
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- Creator
- Bradley Lubin, editor
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- Language
- English
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- New York : Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2013
- Berkeley, California : Small Press Distribution
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- 2 volumes (52, 50 pages) : portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780988894518
- OCLC
- ocn882200886
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "Pauline Kael (1919-2001) was the lead film critic for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991 and one of the reigning voices in American film criticism. Books by Kael include the bestseller I Lost it at the Movies (1965), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968), the National Book Award Winner Deeper into Movies (1974), and The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael (2011), edited by Sanford Schwartz for the Library of America." --Publisher's website.
- "Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was an American poet and key presence in post-War arts and letters. His works of poetry include The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), Bending the Bow (1968), and Ground Work: Before the War/In the Dark (2006). The Collected Works of Robert Duncan are currently being published by the University of California Press." --Publisher's website.
- Part I: Introduction -- Editor's note -- The selected correspondence of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946 (Part I) -- Endnotes -- Biographical notes ; Part II: The selected correspondence of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946 (Part II) -- Biographical notes