
Kill All Your Darlings
Pieces, 1990-2005
Portland, OR : Yeti, [2007]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 299 pages ; 22 cm
In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. He is "one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher of American experience," says the New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl. Kill All Your Darlings is the first collection of Sante's articles--many of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Village Voice--and offers ample justification for such high praise. Sante is best known for his groundbreaking work in urban history (Low Life), and for a particularly penetrating form of autobiography (The Factory of Facts). These subjects are also reflected in several essays here, but it is the author's intense and scrupulous writing about music, painting, photography, and poetry that takes center stage. Alongside meditations on cigarettes, factory work, and hipness, and his critical tour de force, "The Invention of the Blues," Sante offers his incomparable take on icons from Arthur Rimbaud to Bob Dylan, René Magritte to Tintin, Buddy Bolden to Walker Evans, Allen Ginsberg to Robert Mapplethorpe.
Contents:
My lost city ; The ruins of New York ; A riot of my own ; The sea-green incorruptible ; The bandit king ; In a garden state -- The injection mold ; Why do you think they call it dope? ; Our friend the cigarette ; Auld lang syne ; Strength through joy ; I can't carry you anymore -- Teenage history ; Getting by and making do ; I is somebody else ; I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say ; The invention of the blues -- The octopus bearing the initials V. H. ; The detective ; The clear line ; The hunger artist ; The department of memory ; The perfect moment -- The total animal soup of time ; A companion of the Prophet.
Subjects:
Sante, Lucy.
Popular culture -- United States.
Arts, American.
Popular music -- United States.
Popular culture.
Arts.
United States -- Intellectual life.
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Sante, Lucy.
Popular culture -- United States.
Arts, American.
Popular music -- United States.
Popular culture.
Arts.
United States -- Intellectual life.
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9781891241536 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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LITERATURE Essays San | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |