About this title: "What Is What Was", Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany", is the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and non-fiction. Stories, such as the already well-known "My Ex, the Moral Philosopher", appear among portraits (of the sort Hugh Kenner praise as "almost the invention of a new genre"): Auden, Pound, Ellison, Terkel, W.C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, Walter Benjamin (in both essay and story), Jung and Freud, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. In the book's seven sections are analyses of the Wimbledon tennis tournament as an Anglification machine, of Silicon Valley at its shaky peak, ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2002-10-15
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780226773261ISBN:0226773264
Description: Very Good. Publisher: University of Chicago Press Date of Publication: 2002 Binding: Soft Cover Edition: 1st Paperback Edition Condition: Near Fine Description: 8vo-over 7"-9" tall 0226773264 The authors fifth 'orderly miscellany', and the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780226773261ISBN:0226773264
Description: New. Publisher: University of Chicago Press Date of Publication: 2002 Binding: Soft Cover Edition: 1st Edition Condition: New Description: 8vo-over 7"-9" tall 0226773264 Thiss book conains but isn't philodophy, critism, opinion, reportage, or autobiography (although the author say it is as much of this as he plans to write). There is a recurrent theme, the ways in which we always actuality is made and remade in description, argument and narrtaion, fictional and nonficyional, but above. read more
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Date Published: 2002-10-15
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New York Times Book Review, 12/01/2002 "In his portraits of writers and friends through the years..., he captures their contradictions and complexities with a clear, knowing eye and generous spirit." -- Sherie Posesorski
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