| Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005 Contributor(s): Sante, Lucy (Author), Marcus, Greil (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1891241532 ISBN-13: 9781891241536 Publisher: Yeti Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: In this collection of stylish and cogent essays, cultural historian Luc Sante offers his incomparable take on icons from Arthur Rimbaud to Allen Ginsberg, Rudolph Giuliani to Robert Mapplethorpe, New York to New Jersey, Buddy Bolden to Bob Dylan, Magritte to Tintin, along with meditations on cigarettes, the invention of the blues, hipness, New Year's Eve, and more. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 306.097 |
| LCCN: 2007012128 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.11" W x 8.59" (0.94 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. He is "one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher of American experience," says the New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl. Kill All Your Darlings is the first collection of Sante's articles--many of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Village Voice--and offers ample justification for such high praise. Sante is best known for his groundbreaking work in urban history (Low Life), and for a particularly penetrating form of autobiography (The Factory of Facts). These subjects are also reflected in several essays here, but it is the author's intense and scrupulous writing about music, painting, photography, and poetry that takes center stage. Alongside meditations on cigarettes, factory work, and hipness, and his critical tour de force, "The Invention of the Blues," Sante offers his incomparable take on icons from Arthur Rimbaud to Bob Dylan, Ren Magritte to Tintin, Buddy Bolden to Walker Evans, Allen Ginsberg to Robert Mapplethorpe. |