In the fall of 1959, Harper's Magazine published a special supplement on the state of writing and the American literary scene. It has since become recognised as the most useful brief survey of the contemporary state of the American writing arts. In this newly reissued volume, Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960.
In the fall of 1959, Harper's Magazine published a special supplement on the state of writing and the American literary scene. It has since become recognised as the most useful brief survey of the contemporary state of the American writing arts. In this newly reissued volume, Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960.
JOHN FISCHER (1910-1978) was a lifelong writer and editor. His work appeared in Life, The New Yorker, Readers Digest, among other publications, and he was a reporter for both AP and UPI. He served as editor-in-chief of Harper’s Magazine from 1953 to 1967, and as contributing editor thereafter. Another Harper’s editor, Lewis Lapham memorialized him: “He made the magazine an instrument of rigorous social inquiry, publishing much of the best and most constructive political thought of his era.” ROBERT B. SILVERS (1929 - 2017) was an editorial board member for Harper’s Magazine and co-founder and editor of The New York Review of Books from 1963 to 2017, co-editing it with Barbara Epstein for 43 years until her death in 2006. He received many awards and accolades, including the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award for “Distinguished Service to the Arts,” the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing and a National Humanities Medal. Among other honors, he was a Chevalier of the French LÉgion d’honneur and a member of the French Ordre National du MÉrite. He was awarded the 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
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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
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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