James Laughlin, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $35 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1617-3
Like his life, Laughlin's memoir is a bold demonstration of good literary ethics. The scion of Pittsburgh steel men, Laughlin founded America's greatest avant-garde press at the behest of Ezra Pound. New Directions brought immortals like Nabokov,...
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Edited by Peggy L. Fox and Thomas Keith. Norton, $39.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-393-24620-9
This collection of correspondence between Tennessee Williams and his primary publisher, New Directions founder James Laughlin, provides a remarkable window onto a literary friendship. While the letters, written between December 1942 and October 1982,
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James Laughlin, Author Moyer Bell $18.95 (207p) ISBN 978-1-55921-029-4
Laughlin--poet, essayist, founder of New Directions--shows himself as a master of the situational slice of life in these 12 stories. In ``This Is My Blood,'' the clipped dialogue and antiseptic style increase the visceral impact, giving this story...
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James Laughlin, Author Moyer Bell $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-918825-87-2
Founder of New Directions, essayist and poet Laughlin offers intimate reminiscences about Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Kenneth Patchen, among others. According to PW , ``most of the 16 pieces are of recent vintage, and while some are more...
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James Laughlin, Author Zoland Books $22.95 (149p) ISBN 978-0-944072-46-2
The title poem tells of a 1940s painting that has long hung in the poet's dining room and in which he continues to see new elements, even to imagining movement within it. So it is with this collection of mostly recollective, accessible poems, which...
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James Laughlin, Author, Hayden Carruth, Introduction by Moyer Bell $34.95 (574p) ISBN 978-1-55921-067-6
Laughlin, the distinguished publisher of New Directions, has spent a lifetime in literature. Following the advice of Ezra Pound, who suggested publishing as a career, he has seen into print such giants of modernism as Pound and William Carlos...
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