books by Jackson R. Bryer
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Jackson R. Bryer
Conversations with Lillian Hellman (Literary Conversations Series)
University Press of Mississippi
, 1986
This volume includes twenty-six conversations with Lillian Hellman, ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through extended talks with her which appears in the Paris Review , Esquire , and Rolling Stone , down to her last interviews in the early 1980s. In all these interviews, ...
Dear Scott/Dear Max (Hudson River Editions)
Scribner
, 1991
Required Reading for Editors and Authors
Though it's either incredibly expensive or simply out of print (or both?), I'd like to submit that Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence should be required reading for every editor and every author (or anyone else interested in learning how the ...
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
St. Martin's Press
, 2002
A Fantastic Collection of Literary Love Letters
Once I opened this book of F. Scott and Zelda's love letters, I was glued to it, and didn't put it down until I had read the entire book 6 hours later. This is an engrossing collection of passionate letters between two of America's most famous Jazz Age babies, full of ...
The Heath Anthology Of American Literature
Paul (EDT)/ Yarborough, Richard (EDT)/ Bryer, Jackson R. (EDT) Lauter
Houghton Mifflin College Div
, 2004
French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad
Palgrave Macmillan
, 1999
LOOKING FOR ONE SUCH BOOK, THIS IS IT
Some of the best recounting of the contentious relationship between Hemingway and Fitzgerald out there. Chapter 2 -- Fitzgerald's Blue Pencil -- is priceless.
The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
, Jackson R. Bryer, ...
Harper
, 2008
Not really a great letter writer
Wilder is not one of the great letter writers , though he must have been an admirable correspondent, and late in life he lashes out at a would-be biographer whose take on him was going to be that Wilder led a lonely life, by responding with a list of great friends. I ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Library of America
, 2000
Good Collection of Pre-Gatsby Work
This is a very attractive packaged, comprehensive collection of Fitzgerald's early work, containing his first two novels (This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful & Damned) and his first two short story collections. Included are some classic short stories such as May ...
Conversations with August Wilson (Literary Conversations Series)
University Press of Mississippi
, 2006
In little more than twenty years, playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) completed a ten-play cycle depicting African American life in the twentieth century, with each play taking place in a different decade. Two of the plays? Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990)?were awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and seven of them received the New York Drama ...
Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill
Travis Bogard
, Jackson R. Bryer
Limelight Editions
, 2004
"...essential to any understanding of...O'Neill if only because they demystify him." -Arthur Miller, The New York Times Book Review
The Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators
Rutgers University Press
, 2005
Delights and Duds
I've resd lots of Conversations books over the years. Usually the interviewers uncover some sharp talkers as well as some duds. Here the unpleasant event is Jason Robert Brown, who seems like an egomaniacal nitwit with nothing good to say about anybody, who blames ...
The Playwright's Art: Conversations With Contemporary American Dramatists
Rutgers Univ Pr
, 1995
These interviews can't be beat!
As a theatre major I'm on the constant lookout for good books on modern playwrights. This book is an invaluable resource for theatre lovers. The interview with Terrence McNally is especially wonderful. A must have for active theatre-goers.
Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism
Jackson R. Bryer
Duke University Press
, 1973
"Praise for the earlier edition: ""Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to "Fifteen Modern American Authors "(1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form--"Sixteenth Modern American Authors"--it will continue to be indispensable. If ...
William Inge and the Subversion of Gender: Rewriting Stereotypes in the Plays, Novels, and Screenplays
Jeff Johnson
McFarland & Company
, 2005
Inspired by a meeting with Tennessee Williams, American playwright William Inge found success early, winning a Pulitzer for drama and an Academy Award for best screenplay. His small-town upbringing profoundly influenced his writing, and one of his major recurring themes was the traditional roles of gender. This close study of Inge?s work ...
The Actor's Art: Conversations With Contemporary American Stage Performers
Rutgers University Press
, 2001
Interviews with seventeen leading stage performers.
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