Bibliograph

The Tolstoy of the zulus, on culture, arts & letters, Stephen Kessler

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The Tolstoy of the zulus, on culture, arts & letters, Stephen Kessler

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Tolstoy of the zulus

Oclc number

744332278

Responsibility statement

Stephen Kessler

Sub title

on culture, arts & letters

Table Of Contents

Culture: Terror, propaganda and imagination -- Violins vs. violence (the madness of art) -- Satanic realism -- Literature, unplugged -- Save the letter -- In praise of the postcard -- Google's library of Babel -- The trouble with publishing -- Writers on strike? -- A screen of one's own -- Armageddon will be televised -- Hollywood Wax Museum -- Disneyland revisited -- Manson demystified -- Not a pretty picture: Esquire in the sixties -- Dylanography -- Beauty's truths -- Arts: The discreet charm of Luis Buñuel -- Keat's star turn -- Grave new world -- A whale of a monster movie -- Mary Holmes, 1910-2002 -- Museum mysteries: a self-guided tour -- Bearden's burden -- City light: Edward Hopper in San Francisco -- Net art man: Stan Fullerton -- The Nutzle enigma -- Vidstrand is a many-stranded thing -- Chips off the old Watts -- Robert Gold, Bohemian everyman -- Uneasy listening -- Monk's wake -- Exaltation at Zellerbach: Sonny Rollins rising -- Sympathy for the Stones -- The integrated man: Harry Belafonte -- Lonesome traveler: Bob Dylan at 60 -- Letters: American colossus: Henry Miller -- The Tolstoy of the Zulus: Saul Bellow -- Lost illusions: Philip Roth -- Humanstein: Bellow and Roth -- Nonprophets: Roth and Dylan -- Three bad dudes: Jerome Washington, Pete Hamill, Marlon Brando -- Tough guy tells all: Charles Bukowski -- Salinger's masterpiece: fifty years of silence -- Beyond good and evil: Thomas Keneally -- Nietzsche's headshrinker: Irvin Yalom -- Never believe what you think: Carlos Fuentes -- Marriage of true minds: Page and Eloise Smith -- California realist: James D. Houston -- An amazing man: Morton Marcus -- Bard under the radar: Greg Hall -- An unknown writer: Richard P. Brickner -- George Hitchcock, Jorge-of-all-trades -- All the fictions fit to print

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