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Conversations with Edmund White
About This Book
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 Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews highlight White's predilections, his major achievements, and the pivotal moments of his long, varied career.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 trilogyâ A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony âalong 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- PW Interviews: Edmund White
- An Interview with Edmund White
- Edmund White: The Art of Fiction 105
- An Interview with Edmund White
- Paris Interview with Edmund White
- From the Stonewall to The Burning Library: Interview with Edmund White
- The Day That Edmund White Kissed Me
- Edmund White in Conversation
- Edmund White
- Edmund White: The Man Who Wrote The Married Man
- The Sensual Part of Beauty Is the Wound
- AIDS, Arts, and Responsibilities: An Interview with Edmund White
- Line of Beauty: Laurie Taylor Interviews Edmund White
- Edmund White: Hotel de Dream
- Poetry as a âDisordering of the Sensesâ
- New York City Boy: A Conversation with Edmund White
- An Interview with Edmund White
- Interview: Edmund White
- Edmund White: Invention, Imagination, and Memory
- Q&A with Edmund White
- The Art of Being Edmund White: A Capstone Interview
- Index