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050 00 $aPS3525.I5454$bZ486 1995
082 00 $a818/.5209$aB$220
100 1 $aMiller, Henry,$d1891-1980.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79069799
245 10 $aHenry Miller and James Laughlin :$bselected letters /$cedited by George Wickes.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c1996.
263 $a9511
300 $axxxi, 386 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes an index.
520 $aJames Laughlin was first introduced to Henry Miller's writing in 1934 when he was studying with Ezra Pound in Rapallo, Italy. As Laughlin remembers it, one day Pound tossed a book at him across the table at which they were sitting, saying, "Waal Jas, here's a dirty book that's really good.
520 8 $aYou'd better read that if your morals can stand it." Laughlin was so impressed with the book, Tropic of Cancer, that he promptly initiated a correspondence with Miller which soon turned into a publisher/author relationship when Laughlin, at Pound's urging, founded New Directions in 1936.
520 8 $aEver mercurial in temperament, an idealist who struggled financially to meet his material needs, Miller relied on his publisher Laughlin's generosity and expert editorial advice for decades. Although Miller's letters, sometimes quite teasingly, decried the conservatism of American book publishing, Miller nevertheless trusted Laughlin with intimate details about his work and personal life.
520 8 $aThe resulting correspondence, spanning from 1935 to shortly before Miller's death in 1980, is a remarkable, uncensored record of the ideas and intentions that spawned many of Miller's most provocative and memorable literary endeavors.
520 8 $aHenry Miller and James Laughlin: Selected Letters is a powerful, sometimes poignant and often startling documentation of the complex friendship forged through the written word among two of the twentieth century's most influential figures in the world of literature and publishing.
600 10 $aMiller, Henry,$d1891-1980$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vCorrespondence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101496
600 10 $aLaughlin, James,$d1914-1997$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vCorrespondence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109430
700 1 $aLaughlin, James,$d1914-1997.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83177320
700 1 $aWickes, George.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87132272
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3525.I5454$iZ486 1996