Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Brantley, Will (William Oliver)
2. Roche, Nancy McGuire

Description

1. xx, 207 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews highlight White's predilections, his major achievements, and the pivotal moments of his long, varied career. Since the 1973 publication of his first novel, Forgetting Elena, Edmund White (b. 1940) has become a major figure in literature and gay culture. White is, however, more than just a celebrated gay writer. He is an international man of letters, and his work crosses several genres. White's fiction includes an autobiographical trilogy--A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony--along with more recent novels such as Jack Holmes and His Friend and Our Young Man. White's love of French literature and culture is evident in biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud, and his antipathy to American Puritanism suffuses his collected essays and memoirs and is on full display in two early nonfiction works that helped define the era of gay liberation: The Joy of Gay Sex, coauthored with Charles Silverstein, and States of Desire: Travels in Gay America. A professor of creative writing at Princeton University, White has earned many distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award. White has been a generous interviewer, sharing his time and insights not only with major publications such as the Paris Review, but also with smaller online publications for more limited audiences. A lively commentator, White has never been afraid to speak his mind, even when the result has been public feuds with literary peers on both sides of the Atlantic."--

Series statement

1. Literary conversations series

Uniform title

1. Literary conversations series.

Subject

1. Gay men
2. Authors, American
3. Gay authors
4. White, Edmund, 1940-
5. 1900-1999
6. White, Edmund, 1940- > Interviews
7. Gay men > United States > Interviews
8. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies
9. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
10. United States
11. Authors, American > 20th century > Interviews
12. Interviews
13. Gay authors > United States > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. JFE 18-191

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. White, Edmund, 1940- interviewee.

Title

1. Conversations with Edmund White / edited by Will Brantley and Nancy McGuire Roche.

Publisher

1. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Literary conversations series
2. Literary conversations series.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Brantley, Will (William Oliver), editor.
2. Roche, Nancy McGuire, editor.

Other form:

1. Online version: White, Edmund, 1940- Conversations with Edmund White Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017 9781496813565 (DLC) 2017033168

LCCN

1. 2017017861

Other standard identifier

1. 40027466981

ISBN

1. 9781496813558 hardcover
2. 1496813553 hardcover
3. 9781496815057 paperback
4. 149681505X paperback

Research call number

1. JFE 18-191