The Company They Kept
Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
$48.76
- Paperback
316 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2009
Summary
Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most—each other. 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 complexiti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590173343 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590173341 |
| Author: | Robert B. Silvers |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Collections |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 316 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 138mm x 16mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Beautifully produced, and rich in revealing vignettes, this gathering of friends would make a perfect girft for a literary friend, especially one who agrees with EM Cioran that the two most interesting things in the world are gossip and metaphysics. Irish Times This enticing collection brings together “the best 27 memoirs” published since the New York Review of Books was launched in the 1960s. Guardian Memories wrapped in tender prose, yet are unflinching in their portrayal of these talented friends, failings and all… These vignettes steer away from hero worship to give us something more moving. Independent Writing is a lonely and uneventful business, and this collection is a useful reminder that literary life involves friendship, admiration and affection as well as envy, malice and the other qualities so well assembled in ‘Poisoned Pens’. Literary Review An immensely enjoyable and varied celebration of both the pleasures and pain of friendship. Good Book Guide
About The Author
Robert B. Silvers
Robert Silvers (1929-2017) was the editor of The New York Review of Books.
Barbara Epstein (1928-2006) was a founding co-editor of The New York Review of Books.
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