Homage to Daniel Shays : collected essays, 1952-1972 /
The forty-four essays in this collection range in subject matter from pornography, the Kennedys, Tarzan, Yukio Mishima, Norman Mailer and paranoid politics.
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New York :
Random House,
[1972]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Novelists and critics of the 1940s
- A note on the novel
- Book report
- Writing plays for television
- Visit to a small planet
- Satire in the 1950s
- Love love love
- Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak house
- The twelve Caesars
- Norman Mailer's self-advertisements
- President Kennedy
- John Dos Passos at midcentury
- Barry Goldwater: a chat
- Police brutality
- Nasser's Egypt
- Edmund Wilson, tax dodger
- Tarzan revisited
- John O'Hara
- E. Nesbit's magic
- John Horne Burns
- Sex and the law
- The Sexus of Henry Miller
- Byzantium's fall
- Writers and the world
- Pornography
- The holy family
- The Manchester book
- Paranoid politics
- French letters: theories of the new novel
- Miss Sontag's new novel
- Gore Vidal
- The twenty-ninth Republican Convention
- Manifesto and dialogue
- Literary gangsters
- An American press lord
- Meredith
- Doc Reuben
- Drugs
- The death of Mishima
- Women's liberation meets Miller-Mailer-Manson man
- The fourth diary of Anaïs Nin
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- H. Hughes
- Homage to Daniel Shays.