Conversations with Edmund White (Literary Conversations Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1496813553 ISBN 13: 9781496813558

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2017

Synopsis

Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews highlight White's predilections, his major achievements, and the pivotal moments of his long, varied career.

Since the 1973 publication of his first novel, Forgetting Elena, Edmund White (b. 1940) has become a major figure in literature and gay culture. White is, however, more than just a celebrated gay writer. He is an international man of letters, and his work crosses several genres. White's fiction includes an autobiographical trilogy--A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony--along with more recent novels such as Jack Holmes and His Friend and Our Young Man. White's love of French literature and culture is evident in biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud, and his antipathy to American Puritanism suffuses his collected essays and memoirs and is on full display in two early nonfiction works that helped define the era of gay liberation: The Joy of Gay Sex, coauthored with Charles Silverstein, and States of Desire: Travels in Gay America.

A professor of creative writing at Princeton University, White has earned many distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award. White has been a generous interviewer, sharing his time and insights not only with major publications such as the Paris Review, but also with smaller online publications for more limited audiences. A lively commentator, White has never been afraid to speak his mind, even when the result has been public feuds with literary peers on both sides of the Atlantic.

About this title

Book Description

Over thirty years of interviews with the award-winning author and scholar known for chronicling gay culture

About the Author

Will Brantley, a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, is author of Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir and editor of Conversations with Pauline Kael, both published by the University Press of Mississippi.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1496813553
• ISBN 13: 9781496813558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Brantley Will, Roche Nancy McGuire