The Hasty Papers - Hardcover

Leslie, Alfred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0924047127 ISBN 13: 9780924047121

Publisher: Host Publications, 2006

Cultural Writing. This expanded version of THE HASTY PAPERS is a seamless vision of the literary, artistic, political and cultural concerns of the 20th century, concerns that still engage us today and lead us into the future. This oversized archival edition (11" x 14 1/2") includes nearly 400 photographs, drawings and paintings, along with 5 plays (Aristophanes, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Terry Southern, Derek Walcott), 16 poems (Kenneth Koch's is 104 stanzas), Fidel Castro's famous 1960 United Nations speech (uncut), along with the complete United States response, a full length novel on hashish, an epistolary novel-of-sorts, an examination of the paintings of Hitler, Churchill and Eisenhower and more.

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About the Author:

Alfred Leslie was born in 1927 in New York City. He was awarded the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the National Institute of Arts and Letters and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. Artists Chuck Close Close, speaking in 1991 of the extraordinary quality of Leslie's paintings and his accomplishment in creating a cohesive intellectual and political infrastructure for a resurgence of figurative art, referred to Leslie as "a hero for being the one who turned the tide." Leslie lives in New York City's East Village with his longtime companion Nancy de Antonio. His most recent filmwork, The Cedar Bar, premiered at the London Film Festival in November 2002.

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