Finks - Whitney, Joel

Biographie:
JOEL WHITNEY's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Baffler, New York Magazine, and The Sun, among others. His essays have twice been designated as Notable in Best American Essays, and he received a 2017 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing for his work on Guernica, which he co-founded. For his poetry, which has appeared in The Paris Review, The Nation, and Agni, he is a recipient of the Discovery Prize awarded by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn, where he is at work on a novel.

Sommaire:
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: A Lit'r'y Coup
1 Graduates
2 The Responsibility of Editors
3 Pasternak, the CIA, and Feltrinelli
4 The Paris Review Goes to Moscow
5 Did the CIA Censor Its Magazines?
6 James Baldwin's Protest
7 Into India
8 The US Coup in Guatemala
9 Cuba: A Portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, Garcia Marquez, Part 1
10 Cuba: A Portrait by Plimpton, Hemingway and Garcia Marquez, Part 2
11 Tools Rush In: Pablo Neruda, Mundo Nuevo and Keith Botsford
12 The Vital Center Cannot Hold
13 Blowback
CODA Afghanistan
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SOURCES
ENDNOTES
INDEX