- Summary
- "Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of public life. Here is the William Styron unafraid to peer into the darkest corners of the 20th century or to take on the complex racial legacy of the United States. But here too is Styron writing about his daily walk with his dog, musing on the Modern Library's "100 Greatest Books," and offering personal insight into the extraordinary array of noted contemporary figures he interacted with over the course of an illustrious career. These are the people and events, tragic and joyful, historical and intimate, that aroused Styron's unrivalled curiosity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Styron, William, 1925-2006, author.
- Published
- New York : Random House, [2015]
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
-
pt. 1. Apprenticeship
Autobiographical
The Prevalence of Wonders
Moviegoer
Christchurch
William Blackburn
Almost a Rhodes Scholar
A Case of the Great Pox
pt. 2. The South
The Oldest America
The James
Children of a Brief Sunshine
pt. 3. Race and Slavery
This Quiet Dust
A Southern Conscience
Slave and Citizen
Overcome
Slavery's Pain, Disney's Gain
Our Common History
Acceptance
In the Southern Camp
A Voice from the South
Nat Turner Revisited
pt. 4. Final Solutions
Auschwitz
Hell Reconsidered
Auschwitz and Hiroshima
A Wheel of Evil Come Full Circle
pt. 5. Disorders of the Mind
Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died
Prozac Days, Halcion Nights
"Interior Pain"
pt. 6. Warfare and Military Life
MacArthur
The Red Badge of Literature
A Farewell to Arms
Calley
Arnheiter
The Wreckage of an American War
A Father's Prophecy
pt. 7. Prisoners
The Death-in-Life of Benjamin Reid
Benjamin Reid: Aftermath
Aftermath of "Aftermath"
The Joint
A Death in Canaan
Death Row
pt. 8. Presidential
Havanas in Camelot
Les Amis du President
Francois Mitterrand
Family Values
Clinton and the Puritans
pt. 9. Reports
Chicago: 1968
Down the Nile
pt. 10. Literary
Lie Down in Darkness
"I'll Have to Ask Indianapolis-"
Letter to an Editor
The Paris Review
The Long March
We Weren't in It for the Money
The Book on Lolita
Fessing Up
The MacDowell Medal
pt. 11. Antecedents
William Faulkner
"O Lost!" Etc.
An Elegy for F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Second Flowering
A Literary Forefather
pt. 12. Friends and Contemporaries
My Generation
Robert Penn Warren
Lillian's Bosom
Irwin Shaw
Jimmy in the House
Celebrating Capote
James Jones
Transcontinental with Tex
Peter Matthiessen
Bennett Cerf
Bob Loomis
Philip Rahv
Remembering Ralph
C. Vann Woodward
It Cannot Be Long
My Neighbor Arthur
Big Jim
The Contumacious Mr. Roth
pt. 13. Crusades, Complaints, Gripes
If You Write for Television
Fie on Bliss
The Habit
Cigarette Ads and the Press
Too Late for Conversion or Prayer
pt. 14. Bagatelles
The Big Love
Candy
pt. 15. Amours
Virginia Durr for President
My Daughters
Our Model Marriage
pt. 16. In Closing
Walking with Aquinnah
"In Vineyard Haven."
- Other Authors/Editors
- West, James L. W., III, editor.
- Notes
-
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Apprenticeship -- Autobiographical -- The Prevalence of Wonders -- Moviegoer -- Christchurch -- William Blackburn -- Almost a Rhodes Scholar -- A Case of the Great Pox -- pt. 2. The South -- The Oldest America -- The James -- Children of a Brief Sunshine -- pt. 3. Race and Slavery -- This Quiet Dust -- A Southern Conscience -- Slave and Citizen -- Overcome -- Slavery's Pain, Disney's Gain -- Our Common History -- Acceptance -- In the Southern Camp -- A Voice from the South -- Nat Turner Revisited -- pt. 4. Final Solutions -- Auschwitz -- Hell Reconsidered -- Auschwitz and Hiroshima -- A Wheel of Evil Come Full Circle -- pt. 5. Disorders of the Mind -- Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died -- Prozac Days, Halcion Nights -- "Interior Pain" -- pt. 6. Warfare and Military Life -- MacArthur -- The Red Badge of Literature -- A Farewell to Arms -- Calley -- Arnheiter -- The Wreckage of an American War -- A Father's Prophecy -- pt. 7. Prisoners -- The Death-in-Life of Benjamin Reid -- Benjamin Reid: Aftermath -- Aftermath of "Aftermath" -- The Joint -- A Death in Canaan -- Death Row -- pt. 8. Presidential -- Havanas in Camelot -- Les Amis du President -- Francois Mitterrand -- Family Values -- Clinton and the Puritans -- pt. 9. Reports -- Chicago: 1968 -- Down the Nile -- pt. 10. Literary -- Lie Down in Darkness -- "I'll Have to Ask Indianapolis-" -- Letter to an Editor -- The Paris Review -- The Long March -- We Weren't in It for the Money -- The Book on Lolita -- Fessing Up -- The MacDowell Medal -- pt. 11. Antecedents -- William Faulkner -- "O Lost!" Etc. -- An Elegy for F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A Second Flowering -- A Literary Forefather -- pt. 12. Friends and Contemporaries -- My Generation -- Robert Penn Warren -- Lillian's Bosom -- Irwin Shaw -- Jimmy in the House -- Celebrating Capote -- James Jones -- Transcontinental with Tex -- Peter Matthiessen -- Bennett Cerf -- Bob Loomis -- Philip Rahv -- Remembering Ralph -- C. Vann Woodward -- It Cannot Be Long -- My Neighbor Arthur -- Big Jim -- The Contumacious Mr. Roth -- pt. 13. Crusades, Complaints, Gripes -- If You Write for Television -- Fie on Bliss -- The Habit -- Cigarette Ads and the Press -- Too Late for Conversion or Prayer -- pt. 14. Bagatelles -- The Big Love -- Candy -- pt. 15. Amours -- Virginia Durr for President -- My Daughters -- Our Model Marriage -- pt. 16. In Closing -- Walking with Aquinnah -- "In Vineyard Haven."
