With baseball central to each of these stories of the Mason City Royals, the author spins witty, evocative tales of a group of has-beens, would-bes, and rising stars in a minor league team destined for glory

Short Season, and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Klinkowitz, Jerome

United States

Crowell-Collier Pr

Listen-Gerry Mulligan: An Aural Narrative in Jazz

Arts & Photography

Music

Schirmer Reference

Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography

Huffman-Klinkowitz, Julie

Pieratt, Asa B.

Reference

Archon Books

Literary disruptions: The making of a post-contemporary American fiction

University of Illinois Press

Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction

History & Criticism

The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction.

Literary Disruption: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction

An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it is his importance in cultural history, Jerome Klinkowitz contends, that makes Wright the object of such avid and continuing interest. Designing more than just buildings, Wright offered a concept for living that still influences how people conduct their lives today. Wright's innovations in architecture have been widely studied, but this is the most comprehensive and sustained treatment of his thought. Klinkowitz presents a critical biography driven by the architect's own work and intellectual growth, focusing on the evolution of Wright's thinking and writings from his first public addresses in 1894 to his last essay in 1959. Did Wright reject all of Victorian thinking about the home, or do his attentions to a minister's sermon on "the house beautiful" deserve closer attention? Was Wright echoing the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, or was he more in step with the philosophy of William James? Did he reject the Arts and Crafts movement, or repurpose its beliefs and practices for new times? And, what can be said of his deep dissatisfaction with architectural concepts of his own era, the dominant modernism that became the International Style? Even the strongest advocates of Frank Lloyd Wright have been puzzled by his objections to so much that characterized the twentieth century, from ideas for building to styles of living. In Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought, Klinkowitz, a widely published authority on twentieth-century literature, thought, and culture, examines the full extent of Wright's books, essays, and lectures to show how he emerged from the nineteenth century to anticipate the twenty-first. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought

Humor & Entertainment

University of Wisconsin Press

Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics. His work was profoundly innovative and yet perfectly lucid. In this comprehensive introductory study, originally published in 1982, Jerome Klinkowitz traces Vonnegut’s influences within the American middle class, his early efforts as a short-story writer for magazines in the 1960s and his startling and unprecedented success as a bestselling experimental novelist with Slaughterhouse-Five. His self-consciously moral posture led to readers throughout the world accepting him as their spokesman for humane values, a role which Klinkowitz considers within the context of his work.

Kurt Vonnegut (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction)

Genre Fiction

Routledge

Examines the major works, personality, literary technique and widespread appeal of the dynamic American writer

The Vonnegut Statement

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