Research Catalog

Title

Bootlegger of the soul : the literary legacy of William Kennedy / edited by Suzanne Lance & Paul Grondahl.

Publication

Albany : Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lance, Suzanne
• Grondahl, Paul, 1959-
• Kennedy, William, 1928-

Description

xiv, 393 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Bootlegger of the Soul offers a fresh and authoritative overview of the acclaimed literary career of the award-winning novelist William Kennedy. Often cited as one of the foremost authors of his generation, Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world's literary map along with James Joyce's Dublin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Macondo, and William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Bringing together reviews, interviews, and scholarly essays, as well as essays, speeches, two plays, and a short story by the author himself, this collection assesses for the first time in one volume the full sweep of Kennedy's long literary career and his astonishing trajectory from journalist to struggling novelist to Pulitzer Prize winner. Lively, readable, and brimming with the infectious wit and lyrical prose that animates Kennedy's novels, Bootlegger of the Soul is a celebration of a writer still working hard at his craft at age ninety"--

Series Statement

Excelsior editions

Uniform Title

Excelsior editions.

Subjects

• Kennedy, William, 1928-
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Kennedy, William, 1928- > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword: conjuring ghosts with William Kennedy -- The sudden fame of William Kennedy / Margaret Croyden -- O Albany! O Kennedy! / Doris Grumbach -- William Kennedy: interview / Edward Schwarzschild -- Human capital: O Albany! pays homage to the hard-to-love city that is the greatest hero of Kennedy's novels / Stefan Beck -- Violent places: on ghosts, bums, and redemption in Ironweed / Robert Towers -- The literary brilliance of the opening of Ironweed / Donald Newlove -- Rattling great yarn: Quinn's book / Fintan O'Toole -- Family values: William Kennedy's Very Old Bones / Thomas R. Edwards -- Bootlegger of the soul: an introduction to Roscoe / Colum McCann -- O Albany! Roscoe and the triumph of Kennedy's Albany Cycle / Thomas Flanagan -- World premiere of Roscoe: American opera at its finest / Anthony P. Radford -- Jam Session: a review of Changó's Beads and Two-tone Shoes / John Sayles -- An interview with William Kennedy: from novelist to screenwriter / William Patrick -- Why it took so long -- Reinventing Albany in fiction: notes from a native son -- Learning from Faulkner: the obituary of fear -- Gifts from Joyce -- Saul Bellow in memoriam (1915-2005): a great insistent gift -- A nonpareil force field: a tribute to Norman Mailer -- A box of books: an exchange, on matters literary and postal, with Hunter S. Thompson -- The Secrets of Creative Love: A Short Story -- In the system: a technology play -- William Kennedy as journalist: springboard to novelist / Douglas Brinkley -- Edward and Katrina Daugherty: a match made in Albany, not in heaven / Vivian Valvano Lynch -- The snows of reduction: representing homelessness in Ironweed / Benedict Giamo -- A magical time in Albany / Christian Michener -- The cyclical impulse of the Flaming corsage / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- Courtesans, stars, wives, and vixens: the many faces of female power in Kennedy's novels / Neila C. Seshachari.

Call Number

JFE 18-9989

ISBN

• 9781438473314
• 1438473311

LCCN

• 2018018755
• 40028478273

OCLC

1050155660

Title

Bootlegger of the soul : the literary legacy of William Kennedy / edited by Suzanne Lance & Paul Grondahl.

Publisher

Albany : Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Excelsior editions

Excelsior editions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lance, Suzanne, editor.

Grondahl, Paul, 1959- editor.

Container of (expression): Kennedy, William, 1928- Works. Selections.

Other Standard Identifier

40028478273

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9989