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9780878052912: Conversations with Malcolm Cowley (Literary Conversations Series)

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This collection of twenty-one unabridged interviews puts us immediately in the company of one of the presiding literary figures of our times. This revered editor, poet, literary historian, and critic encapsulates seven decades of American literature in these conversations that took place between 1942 and 1985.

Full of insights and strong opinions, direct, salty, Cowley converses candidly with his interviewers about himself and about many subjects and personages that have shaped our national literature in the last century.

Throughout this volume Cowley gives vivid accounts of his close alliances with such widely diverse and individual authors as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, John Cheever, Jack Kerouac, and Ken Kesey.

From these interviews emerges a literary man who inspires the reader’s renewed admiration and gratitude. In the common bond uniting great authors Cowley sees the manifestation of a Republic of Letters with laws, intelligence, and confraternity. These

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<b>Thomas Daniel Young</b> was Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.

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9780878052905: Conversations with Malcolm Cowley (Literary Conversations)

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ISBN 10:  0878052909 ISBN 13:  9780878052905
Editorial: University Press of Mississippi, 1986
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