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Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the "lost generation, " and elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to much of twentieth-century American literary and political life. These letters, the vast majority previously unpublished, provide an indelible self-portrait of Cowley and his time, and make possible a full appreciation of his long and varied career. Perhaps no other writer aided the careers of so many poets and novelists. Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Kerouac, Tillie Olsen, and John Cheever are among the many authors Cowley knew and whose work he supported. A poet himself, Cowley enjoyed the company of writers and knew how to encourage, entertain, and when necessary scold them. At the center of his epistolary life were his friendships with Kenneth Burke, Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken, and Edmund Wilson. By turns serious and thoughtful, humorous and gossipy, Cowley's letters to these and other correspondents display his keen literary judgment and ability to navigate the world of publishing. The letters also illuminate Cowley's reluctance to speak out against Stalin and the Moscow Trials when he was on staff at The New Republic--and the consequences of his agonized evasions. His radical past would continue to haunt him into the Cold War era, as he became caught up in the notorious "Lowell Affair" and was summoned to testify in the Alger Hiss trials. Hans Bak supplies helpful notes and a preface that assesses Cowley's career, and Robert Cowley contributes a moving foreword about his father.
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This is the first comprehensive listing of Malcolm Cowley's literary works, excluding anthologies, from 1916 to 1973. Malcolm Cowley, critic, poet, and literary historian, has been a central figure in the American literary scene for more than fifty years. Diane U. Eisenberg traces Mr. Cow-ley's literary contributions through nearly 1,200 items published in more than seventy periodicals, thus revealing the very wide range of Cowley's interests. Miss Eisenberg's checklist, presented in chronological form, emerges as an historical record of the writing profession in America during the past fifty years. She presents the checklist in parts covering Cowley the man of letters who works in a variety of modes: books and book reviews, poetry, es-says (often in the form of introductions to books by others), memoirs, short fiction, and translations. This checklist will be valuable both to students of Mr. Cowley's work and to students of American literature in general.
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This collection of twenty-one unabridged interviews puts us immediately in the company of one of the presiding literary figures of our times. This revered editor, poet, literary historian, and critic encapsulates seven decades of American literature in these conversations that took place between 1942 and 1985. Full of insights and strong opinions, direct, salty, Cowley converses candidly with his interviewers about himself and about many subjects and personages that have shaped our national literature in the last century. Throughout this volume Cowley gives vivid accounts of his close alliances with such widely diverse and individual authors as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, John Cheever, Jack Kerouac, and Ken Kesey. From these interviews emerges a literary man who inspires the reader's renewed admiration and gratitude. In the common bond uniting great authors Cowley sees the manifestation of a Republic of Letters with laws, intelligence, and confraternity. These.
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• Contents
• Foreword: Beyond the Dry Season
• Robert Cowley
• Editorâ€?s Preface
• Abbreviations
• I. Harvard, World War I, Greenwich Village, 1915-1921
• Harvard, 1915â€? 1917
• France, 1917
• Harvard and Greenwich Village, 1917-1921
• II. Pilgrimage to Holy Land-France, 1921-1923
• III. The City of Anger-New York, 1923-1929
• Dada in New York, 1923-1925
• Freelance, 1925-1928
• The End of a Literary Apprenticeship, 1929
• IV. The Depression Years-Literature and Politics, 1930-1940
• The Red Romance, 1930-1934
• Hart Crane †1932

• The High 1930s: Unity and Discord on the Left, 1934-1937The Fading of a Dream, 1938-1940
• V. The War Years, 1940-1944
• War and Washington, 1940-1942
• Retrenchment and Rehabilitation, 1942-1944
• VI. The Mellon Years, 1944-1949
• Literary History of the United States (1948)
• VII. Literature and Politics in Cold War America, 1949-1954
• VIII. Worker at the Writerâ€?s Trade, 1954-1960
• IX. The Sixties
• The Sixties: Old Left, New Left, and the Community of Letters, 1960-1965
• The Sixties: Retrospection and Consolidation, 1966-1970

• X. Man of Letters, 1970-1987Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the "lost generation, " and elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to much of twentieth-century American literary and political life. These letters, the vast majority previously unpublished, provide an indelible self-portrait of Cowley and his time, and make possible a full appreciation of his long and varied career. Perhaps no other writer aided the careers of so many poets and novelists. Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Kerouac, Tillie Olsen, and John Cheever are among the many authors Cowley knew and whose work he supported. A poet himself, Cowley enjoyed the company of writers and knew how to encourage, entertain, and when necessary scold them. At the center of his epistolary life were his friendships with Kenneth Burke, Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken, and Edmund Wilson. By turns serious and thoughtful, humorous and gossipy, Cowley's letters to these and other correspondents display his keen literary judgment and ability to navigate the world of publishing. The letters also illuminate Cowley's reluctance to speak out against Stalin and the Moscow Trials when he was on staff at The New Republic--and the consequences of his agonized evasions. His radical past would continue to haunt him into the Cold War era, as he became caught up in the notorious "Lowell Affair" and was summoned to testify in the Alger Hiss trials. Hans Bak supplies helpful notes and a preface that assesses Cowley's career, and Robert Cowley contributes a moving foreword about his father.
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• Mansions in the air
• war in bohmemia
• traveller's cheque
• Paris pilgrimages
• the death of Dada
• the city of anger
• the age of islands
• echoes of a suicide.
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The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as exiles.
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• AcknowledgmentsIntroductio
• n1. Framing the Un-Scene / Writing the Wrongs: Henry James's Text of Americ
• a2. An Intellectual Is Being Beaten: The Escape and Return of Harold E. Stearn
• s3. Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden: Malcolm Cowley's Odyssey of Legitimatio
• n4. Everybody's Autobiography: The Remaking of an AmericanPostscriptNotesWorks CitedIndex.
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The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholars have examined the aftermath of their return home. Writing Back focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their return to America after years of living abroad. Susan Winnett establishes repatriation as related to but significantly different from travel and exile. She engages in close readings of several writers-in-exile, including Henry James, Harold Stearns, Malcolm Cowley, and Gertrude Stein. Writing Back examines how repatriation unsettles the self-construction of the "returning absentee" by challenging the fictions of national and cultural identity with which the writer has experimented during the time abroad. As both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture.
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• AcknowledgmentsIntroductio
• n1. Framing the Un-Scene / Writing the Wrongs: Henry James's Text of Americ
• a2. An Intellectual Is Being Beaten: The Escape and Return of Harold E. Stearn
• s3. Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden: Malcolm Cowley's Odyssey of Legitimatio
• n4. Everybody's Autobiography: The Remaking of an AmericanPostscriptNotesWorks CitedIndex.
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The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholars have examined the aftermath of their return home. Writing Back focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their return to America after years of living abroad. Susan Winnett establishes repatriation as related to but significantly different from travel and exile. She engages in close readings of several writers-in-exile, including Henry James, Harold Stearns, Malcolm Cowley, and Gertrude Stein. Writing Back examines how repatriation unsettles the self-construction of the "returning absentee" by challenging the fictions of national and cultural identity with which the writer has experimented during the time abroad. As both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture.
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