| Description |
xvii, 524 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
A fire in the brain / Lucia Joyce -- Blocked / Writer's Block -- True confessions / Italo Svevo -- Quicksand / Stefan Zweig -- The frog and the crocodile / Simone de Beauvoir -- Becoming the emperor / Marguerite Yourcenar -- A hard case / Primo Levi -- European dreams / Joseph Roth -- The Neapolitan finger / Andrea de Jorio -- The saintly sinner / Mary Magdalene -- After the ball was over / Vaslav Nijinsky -- Heroes and hero worship / Lincoln Kirstein -- "Sweet as a fig" / Frederick Ashton -- American dancer / Jerome Bobbins -- Second act / Suzanne Farrell -- The soloist / Mikhail Baryshnikov -- The flame / Martha Graham -- Dancing and the dark / Bob Fosse -- The bottom line / Twyla Tharp -- On the contrary / H. L. Mencken -- After the laughs / Dorothy Parker -- Feasting on life / M. F. K. Fisher -- Finding Augie March / Saul Bellow -- Piecework / Sybille Bedford -- The spider's Web / Louise Bourgeois -- Assassination on a small scale / Penelope Fitzgerald -- The hunger artist / Susan Sontag -- Counterlives / Philip Roth -- Perfectly Frank / Frank O'Hara -- Devil's work / Hilary Mantel -- Burned again / Joan of Arc |
| Notes |
Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books |
| Subject |
Artists -- Psychology.
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Suffering.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
2006047266 |
| ISBN |
0375424164 alkaline paper |
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9780375424168 alkaline paper |
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