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Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays
- Author
- Acocella, Joan Ross.
- Title
- Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays / Joan Acocella.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2007.
- Description
- xvii, 524 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2006047266-t.html <Sample text> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2006047266-s.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2006047266-d.html <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2006047266-b.html
- Variant title
- 28 artists and 2 saints
- Notes
- Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books. Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Artists. Creativity. Art psychology. Art--20th century.
- ISBN
- 0375424164 9780375424168