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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590173341
ISBN-13
9781590173343
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71650159
Product Key Features
Book Title
Company They Kept : Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
Number of Pages
316 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Friendship, Rich & Famous, General, Literary, Historical, Essays
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Literary Criticism, Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Whether fond or surprisingly frank, these essays are soothing in their intimacy, their acceptance of fallible fellow humans. 'As always,' writes Robert Oppenheimer of Albert Einstein, 'the myth has its charms; but the truth is far more beautiful.'" O Magazine "A charming addition to a friend's bookshelf would beThe Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships." Vogue "An extraordinarily striking, moving and delicious collection of short essays...The writing in most of these essays is dazzling, the anecdotes and insights even more so. It is a superb collection of vignettes, and their variety throws more light on the diversity and possibilities than a treatise could." The Financial Times "Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein co-editedThe New York Review of Booksfor 43 years, until Epstein died in June. Over those decades, contributors to the review have written about their personal relationships, and this volume brings together 27 memoirs of friendship. This volume should be read piece by marvelous piece: Robert Oppenheimer on Delmore Schwartz, Saul Bellow on John Cheever, Susan Sontag on Paul Goodman." The Chicago Tribune "A touch of sadness clings toThe Company They Kept, an otherwise joyous collection of essays by some of the world's best writers, in which they recount 'unforgettable friendships' they've been blessed with. The sadness stems from the fact that this would appear to be the last book project that Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein worked on. All of the writing in the collection first appeared inThe New York Review of Books, which the two edited together for 43 years, right up until Epstein's death last June. The book, issued by their journal's publishing unit, New York Review Books, is an appropriate tribute to this long collaboration, as the volume hums with the thrill of friendship, which clearly imbued their work relations with a special quality." Jewish Exponent "Silvers and Epstein (coeditors,The New York Review of Books) have coedited collections of essays from theNew York Reviewbefore (e.g.,First Anthology: 30 Years of the New York Review of Books), but this collection is new in both its subject matter and tone. the book contains 27 rare and fascinating accounts of friendships between writers, with each account published in theNew York Reviewin the past 40 years. Silvers explains well the feel of this collection in the preface: 'It is hard to say how any of them came about. For the most part, they are not the sort of essays an editor can ask for.' Not really a biography and not quite a memoir, this collection contains accounts by Robert Oppenheimer on Albert Einstein, by Edward Dahlberg on Hart Crane, by Susan Sontag on Paul Goodman, and more. Joseph Brodsky and Robert Lowell each appear twice, both as writers and subjects. An asset to any literature collection, this is the most interesting literature most of us never get to read." Library Journal "When some of Stravinsky's disciples suggested that Robert Craft write the great composer's biography, Craft countered that long friendship disqualified him: 'I was too close to Stravinsky to do this.' Precisely because they value a perspective that brings us closer to a great creator than a biographer ever could, Silvers and Epstein have assembled a remarkable set of essays by friends of prominent musicians, scientists, poets, and novelists. Only the close proximity of friendship allows readers to glimpse Einstein taking rare delight in a day of sailing, Roethke playing tennis with fierce abandon, and Kesey playing enchanting melodies on the wandering bus he shared with his Merry Pranksters. seeing through the eyes of friends pe
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Dewey Decimal
920.00904
Synopsis
Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationshipsboth personal and intellectualwith other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They Kept is a collection of twenty-seven accounts of these varied friendshipsmost of them undeniably fraught with "idiosyncratic complexities." From Anna Akhmatova's dreamlike description of wandering through Paris with the impoverished Modigliani to Joseph Brodsky's account of his first meeting with Isaiah Berlin (from which he returned to report, around the kitchen table, to Stephen Spender and W. H. Auden), these pieces are tantalizing glimpses into the lives of those who have made The New York Review of Books into what Esquire magazine calls "the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.", Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They Kept is a collection of twenty-seven accounts of these varied friendships-most of them undeniably fraught with "idiosyncratic complexities." From Anna Akhmatova's dreamlike description of wandering through Paris with the impoverished Modigliani to Joseph Brodsky's account of his first meeting with Isaiah Berlin (from which he returned to report, around the kitchen table, to Stephen Spender and W. H. Auden), these pieces are tantalizing glimpses into the lives of those who have made The New York Review of Books into what Esquire magazine calls "the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language."
LC Classification Number
CT120.C654 2009
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