"Literchoor Is My Beat"
豆瓣
A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
Ian S. MacNiven
简介
A biography―thoughtful and playful―of the man who founded New Directions and transformed American publishing
James Laughlin―poet, publisher, world-class skier―was the man behind some of the most daring, revolutionary works in verse and prose of the twentieth century. As the founder of New Directions, he published Ezra Pound's The Cantos and William Carlos Williams's Paterson; he brought Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges to an American audience. Throughout his life, this tall, charismatic intellectual, athlete, and entrepreneur preferred to stay hidden. But no longer―in "Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions, Ian S. MacNiven has given us a sensitive and revealing portrait of this visionary and the understory of the last century of American letters.
MacNiven's portrait is comprehensive and vital, spiced with Ezra Pound's eccentric letters, J's romantic foibles, and anecdotes from a seat-of-your-pants era of publishing now gone by. A story about the struggle to publish only the best, it is itself an example of literary biography at its finest.
目录
Preface
1.The Ancestors
2.Discoveries: The Intellect
3.Harvard, Part One
4.Correspondence Course in Rebellion: Ezra Pound by Sea-Post
5.“The Charismatic Pyramid”: Gertrude Stein
6.The Ezuversity
7.New Directions: From Poet to Publisher
8.Amateur Publisher, Amateur Ski Impresario
9.Enter Kenneth Rexroth and Delmore Schwartz
10.Death, Marriage, and Love Considered and Reconsidered
11.The World at War
12.Worlds Apart: Books at Cambridge, Ski Lifts at Alta
13.Real Butterflies and Metaphorical Chess: Vladimir Nabokov
14.Tennessee Williams Triumphs
15.Norfolk: The Eastern Seaboard Reclaims J
16.The Prodigal Returns: Ezra in the Dock
17.San Francisco, Alta, and Ezra (Again)
18.Guide to the Godhead: Tom Merton
19.Troubles in Europe, Public and Private
20.Bollingen Affair Rocks Library of Congress
21.Crises at New Directions
22.Crisis at Home
23.Public Service: Intercultural Publications and Other Efforts
24.“Le Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche”
25.Missing a Few Beats
26.Trumped in the Marriage Game
27.Fade-Out in Burma, New Directions Revisited
28.New Directions Twenty-Five Years On
29.Tennessee, Henry, and Tom
30.Publishing and Writing: They Never Get Easier
31.Confessor to a Monk
32.This Obdurate World: The Sword Falls
33.One Troubadour Revives, Another Departs
34.Dropping the Pilot
35.On the Road: Performer and Poet
36.Lured by the Apsaras
37.“Il Catullo americano”
38.Revision of Things Past
39.Witness to Mortality
40.The Somnambulist
41.Race Toward Self-Knowledge
42.Nunc dimittis servum tuum
Epilogue
Appendix: Authors Published by New Directions
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Photographs
Also by Ian S. MacNiven
A Note About the Author
Permissions Acknowledgments
Copyright