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Tytell, John.

Writing Beat and other occasions of literary mayhem / John Tytell.

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

ix, 237 pages ; 24 cm

"This hybrid memoir of sixteen interconnected essays attempts to reconsider the Beats and to focus as well on the process of writing non-fiction and biography"-- Provided by publisher.

Tytell, John.

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Beats (Persons)

Authorship.

Biography as a literary form.

Includes bibliographical references.

Engagement. How to write an essay -- The writer as peeping John: on the nature of biographical inquiry -- Hemlock or ambrosia: writing and editorial process -- Notes of a peripatetic lecturer -- Senator tripletalk and the American dream -- Passing through: fifty years @ mind factory -- Reconsidering the beats -- The traveling writer: Beat Mexico -- Kerouac's music -- Ginsberg today -- The oppositional writer: Ed Sanders -- The editor as midwife: writers and little magazines -- The metaphysics of writing. Bombing with words -- A writer's retreat -- Poetic faith: religion and the writer -- A writer's passage -- The donkey and the written word.

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9780826520142 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

0826520146 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

9780826520159 (pbk.)

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9780826520142 : HRD

0826520146 : HRD * 9780826520166 (ebook)

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