Nest of Ninnies

By James Schuyler, John Ashbery, James Ashberry, John and Schuyler

Book Overview

"James Schuyler and I began writing A Nest of Ninnies purely by chance," writes John Ashbery in his new introduction to this classic of American comic fiction. "We were in a car being driven by the young cameraman, Harrison Starr, with his father as a passenger in the front seat... Jimmy said, 'Why don't we write a novel?' And how do we do that, I asked. 'It's easy--you write the first line, ' was his reply." The result is one of the strangest and most exuberant experiments in American literary history, a verbal tour de force of suburban Americana. First published in 1969, A Nest of Ninnies is a true gem-in-the-rough, the decades-long collaborative project from two of the great poetic minds of the twentieth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564785203
• ISBN13: 9781564785206
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher