LOVECRAFT'S NEW YORK CIRCLE: THE KALEM CLUB 1924-1927. Edited by Mara Kirk Hart and S. T. Joshi .
Language: English
Published by Hippocampus Press, New York, 2006
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Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10 [11] 12-17 [18-21] 22-240 [241-243: blank] [244: colophon/bar code], illustrations, pictorial wrappers. During H. P. Lovecraft's residence in New York City, his social and literary life centered upon a group of friends collectively known as the Kalem Club, so named for the initials of the surnames of original members - K, L, or M. Gatherings or "meetings" were frequently held in members' homes, and particularly in Manhattan's Chelsea district, for it was there that Lovecraft's friend George Kirk lived, and where, in the building HPL utilized as the setting of "Cool Air", Kirk operated his Chelsea Book Shop. From August 1924 until March 1927, George Kirk wrote almost daily to his fiancee in Cleveland, revealing many details of his interactions with the other Kalems. After nearly seventy years, the letters were discovered by Kirk's daughter Mara Kirk Hart, who used portions of them as the basis for her fascinating chronicle of the Kalem Club, "Walkers in the City". Now expanding greatly upon that earlier work, she and S. T. Joshi have here assembled all the letters of George Kirk that relate information about the Kalem members and their activities during this time, together with representative writings of all the Kalem members during their most active and fruitful period. Trade paperback format. A fine copy. (#176870). …
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- Title
- LOVECRAFT'S NEW YORK CIRCLE: THE KALEM CLUB 1924-1927. Edited by Mara Kirk Hart and S. T. Joshi .
- Author
- (Lovecraft, Howard Phillips) Kirk, George, and Others
- Publisher
- Hippocampus Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2006
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0976159295
- ISBN 13
- 9780976159292
The Kalem Club was one of the great literary partnerships in American literature. Taking shape even before H. P. Lovecraft arrived in Brooklyn in 1924, the group featured some of the most distinctive figures of their day: George Kirk, genial bookseller and collector; Rheinhart Kleiner, a worldly versifier and man about town; Samuel Loveman, exquisitely refined poet and friend of Hart Crane; James F. Morton, devotee of freethought, the single tax, and Esperanto; Everett McNeill, prolific writer of historical novels for boys; Frank Belknap Long, poet, aesthete, and writer of weird fiction; and, of course, H. P. Lovecraft, on the threshold of becoming the 20th-century Poe. As chronicled in largely unpublished letters by George Kirk to his fiancée, the Kalem Club comes alive as never before--gathering for weekly sessions, taking long, leisurely strolls throughout the New York area, and sharing their works-in-progress. In the second half of this book, an abundance of writings by the Kalems--poems, essays, excerpts from treatises and novels--allows readers to grasp at first hand why the Kalem Club has left an indelible mark upon the literature of its time.
Lovecraft's New York Circle has been compiled by Mara Kirk Hart, daughter of George Kirk and a longtime student of Lovecraft and the Kalem Club, and by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on Lovecraft.
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