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Vanity fair's writers on writers / edited by Graydon Carter ; with an introduction by David Friend.
Penguin Books, c2016.
Call #:
809 V258
Subjects
Authors
--
Biography.
Authors
--
Literary
collections
.
Influence (
Literary
, artistic, etc.).
ISBN:
9780143111764 (pbk.)
0143111760 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Writers on writers
Description:
viii, 424 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction / by David Friend
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One Vanity Fair contrarian fondly recalls another. Dorothy Parker / by Christopher Hitchens
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On poets. W. H. Auden / by Joseph Brodsky
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E. E. Cummings / by Susan Cheever
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Marianne Moore / by Elizabeth Bishop
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On
literary
lions. Eudora Welty / by Willie Morris
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Reynolds Price / by Anne Tyler
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Saul Bellow / by Martin Amis
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Jack Kerouac / by James Wolcott
--
Truman Capote / by Sam Kashner
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Norman Mailer / by Patricia Bosworth
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Ernest Hemingway / by A. Scott Berg
--
Tom Wolfe / by Michael Lewis
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Distant shores. Paul Bowles / by Jay McInerney
--
Gabriel Garc©Ưa M©Łrquez / by Paul Elie
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Primo Levi / by James Atlas
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Naguib Mahfouz / by Christopher Dickey
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Salman Rushdie / by Martin Amis
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Short takes. Willa Cather / by Truman Capote
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James Baldwin / by Jacqueline Woodson
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Roger Straus / by Tom Wolfe
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Ward Just / by David Halberstam
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Toni Morrison / by John Leonard
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Ishmael Beah / by Dave Eggers
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Robert Harris / by Nick Hornby
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Judy Blume / by Meg Wolitzer
--
Wole Soyinka / by Nadine Gordimer
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Sonny Mehta / by Dave Eggers
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Christopher Hitchens / by Salman Rushdie
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A family affair. Joan Didion / by Lili Anolik
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John Gregory Dunne / by Dominick Dunne
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Dominick Dunne / by Mike Hogan
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Behind the best-sellers. Josephine Tey / by Francis Wheen
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Grace Metalious / by Michael Callahan
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Mary McCarthy / by Laura Jacobs
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Jacqueline Susann / by Amy Fine Collins
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Cormac McCarthy / by Richard B. Woodward
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Stieg Larsson / by Christopher Hitchens
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James Patterson / by Todd S. Purdum
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Donna Tartt / by Evgenia Peretz
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Memoir. Bosom Buddies / by Laura Z. Hobson
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His Jewish question / by Arthur Miller
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Darkness visible / by William Styron
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A final tale. Kay Thompson / by Marie Brenner.
Summary:
Offers essays from Vanity Fair writers on specific
authors
, explaining their influence on other writers and the culture at large.
Other authors:
Friend, David
Carter, Graydon
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