Company They Kept, Volume Two Writers on Unforgettable Friendships

Name: Company They Kept, Volume Two Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
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ISBN: 9781590174876

ISBN-10: 1590174879

ISBN-13: 9781590174876

Edition: 2011

Authors: Robert B. Silvers

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Many of the contributors to The New York Review of Books have written about deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with fellow poets, writers, and artists. The Company They Kept is a collection of twenty-eight accounts of these friendships that were always stimulating, often inspiring, and sometimes vexing. There are historic moments-Isaiah Berlin#x19;s conversations with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, Hector Bianciotti#x19;s account of the death of Borges-as well as lighthearted ones-Bruce Chatwin#x19;s hilarious drunken evening with George Ortiz and Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale#x19;s subway ride with George Balanchine. Many of the portraits include vivid…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 11/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.836

Robert B. Silvers is co-founder and editor of "The" "New York Review of Books," He is the editor of "Hidden Histories of Science" and "Five Performing Arts," and co-editor of "Striking Terror: America's New War," "The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin," and "India: A Mosaic,"



Preface




Anna Akhmatova on Osip Mandelstam



Virgil Thomson on Gertrude Stein



Jonathan Miller on Lenny Bruce



Robert Lowell on John Berryman



Stephen Spender on W. H. Auden



Mary McCarthy on Hannah Arendt



John Thompson on Robert Lowell



James Merrill on Elizabeth Bishop



Isaiah Berlin on Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova



Joseph Brodsky on Nadezhda Mandelstam



Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale on George Balanchine



John Richardson on Douglas Cooper



Hector Bianciotti on Jorge Luis Borges



Gore Vidal on Dawn Powell



Bruce Chatwin on George Ortiz



Philip Roth on Ivan Klfma



Elena Bonner on Andrei Sakharov



Elizabeth Hardwick on Murray Kempton



Aileen Kelly on Isaiah Berlin



Murray Kempton on Frank Sinatra



Adam Michnik on Zbigniew Herbert



John Updike on Saul Steinberg



Jonathan Mirsky on Noel Annan



Alison Lurie on Edward Gorey



Ian Buruma on John Schlesinger



Darryi Pinckney on Elizabeth Hardwick



Colin Thubron on Patrick Leigh Fermor


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