E. E. Cummings

Nicholas Delbanco

Enormous Room

Spring and fall

An "inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age ... Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of ... portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The red badge of courage); British artist Dora Carrington (called 'the most neglected serious painter of her time'); and the legendary composer George Gershwin (Rhapsody in blue, Porgy and Bess)"--Page 4 of cover.

Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the nature of first acts

The art of youth

Why Writing Matters

Told in the alternating voices of a family who moves from London to New York at the end of the Second World War, Nicholas Delbanco's memoiristic novel is a moving story about how a family of immigrants come to terms with life in America. How does a German Jewish family from London blend a past filled with ancestral homes in Germany, relatives fleeing the Nazi regime, and an intellectual life in London with the strange shores of America where they emigrate in order to take advantage of the land of opportunity? How can one balance the romanticism of a native land with a desire to fit in to the new? How can one realize what is lost, and what is gained in the journey from England to America? These are the questions that lie at the heart of "What Remains", a memoiristic novel imbued with both the personal experience and the considerable talent of one of America's finest writers.

What Remains

Spring and Fall

Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, and H.G. Wells

Group Portrait

Andrea Beauchamp

Michael Barrett

The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing collects-for the first time in one volume-poetry and prose by writers who won Hopwood Awards when they were students at the University of Michigan and who went on to achieve fame as writers. -- Amazon.com.

75 Years of Prized Writing

The Hopwood Awards

Stillness

Essays on the art of writing by some of the nation's finest writers

Selected Hopwood Lectures

Speaking of Writing

Laurence Goldstein

Based on material that first appeared as a two-volume issue of Michigan quarterly review. Distinguished writers of fiction discuss the creative process and the direction of American fiction in original essays, interviews, memoirs, and short fiction. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Short Stories & Essays on the Narrative

Writers and Their Craft

The Beaux Arts Trio

Drawing lessons from writers of all ages and writing across genres, a distinguished teacher and writer reveals the enduring importance of writing for our time In this new contribution to Yale University Press’s Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with mentors such as John Updike, John Gardner, and James Baldwin, and in turn having taught such rising stars as Jesmyn Ward, Delbanco looks in particular at questions of influence and the contradictory, simultaneous impulses toward imitation and originality. Part memoir, part literary history, and part analysis, this unique text will resonate with students, writers, writing teachers, and bibliophiles.

Narrated by the count's last-surviving relative, Sally Ormsby Thompson Robinson, a fictional portrait of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, describes the eclectic and distinguished career of the eighteenth-century politician, spy, philanthropist, and scientist. Simultaneous.

Nicholas Delbanco

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