Twenty-eight artists and two saints essays
| Main Author: | Acocella, Joan Ross. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Pantheon Books,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce
- Blocked : writer's block
- True confessions : Italo Svevo
- Quicksand : Stefan Zweig
- The frog and the crocodile : Simone de Beauvoir
- Becoming the emperor : Marguerite Yourcenar
- A hard case : Primo Levi
- European dreams : Joseph Roth
- The neapolitan finger : Andrea de Jorio
- The saintly sinner : Mary Magdalene
- After the ball was over : Vaslav Nijinsky
- Heroes and hero worship : Lincoln Kirstein
- "Sweet as a fig" : Frederick Ashton
- American dancer : Jerome Robbins
- Second act : Suzanne Farrell
- The soloist : Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The flame : Martha Graham
- Dancing and the dark : Bob Fosse
- The bottom line : Twyla Tharp
- On the contrary : H.L. Mencken
- After the laughs : Dorothy Parker
- Feasting on life : M.F.K. Fisher
- Finding Augie March : Saul Bellow
- Piecework : Sybille Bedford
- The spider's web : Louise Bourgeois
- Assassination on a small scale : Penelope Fitzgerald
- The hunger artist : Susan Sontag
- Counterlives : Philip Roth
- Perfectly frank : Frank O'Hara
- Devil's work : Hilary Mantel
- Burned again : Joan of Arc.