Cultural Writing. Biography and Memoir. This second volume of Douglas Messerli's ongoing "cultural memoirs" features twenty-two essays, reviews, and other pieces on figures such as Leonard Bernstein, Holden Caulfield, Lolita, Cole Porter, Alfred Kinsey, Carl Rakosi, Marjorie Perloff, Inger Christensen, and Charles Bernstein, as well as a work on "The Death of the Mother" in popular culture. Messerli's first volume, MY YEAR 2005: TERRIFYING TIMES, is also available from SPD.
Author City: Los Angeles, CA USA
Publisher of Green Integer and (formerly) Sun & Moon Press, Messerli has published several books of poetry and fiction, as well as editing the ongoing PIP series of World of Poetry of the 20th Century and numerous other titles.