Literchoor Is My Beat: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions

by Ian S. MacNiven

Book Overview

A biography--thoughtful and playful--of the man who founded New Directions and transformed American publishing

James Laughlin--poet, publisher, world-class skier--was the man behind some of the most daring, revolutionary works in verse and prose of the twentieth century. As the founder of New Directions, he published Ezra Pound's The Cantos and William Carlos Williams's Paterson; he brought Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374299390
• ISBN13: 9780374299392
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"