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03489aam a2200337 i 4500 001 0900F2AA88EA11E98E15CEFC96128E48 003 SILO 005 20190607010356 008 110204t20112011nyu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2011003598 020 $a 1590174879 020 $a 9781590174876 035 $a (OCoLC)701242324 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d VP@ $d IG# $d BWX $d CDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d NZAUC $e rda $d IOU $d SILO 050 04 $a PN453 $b .C66 2011 082 00 $a B $a B $2 22 245 04 $a The company they kept. $n Volume II : $b writers on unforgettable friendships / $c edited and with a preface by Robert B. Silvers. 246 3 $a Company they kept. $n Volume 2 : $b writers on unforgettable friendships 246 30 $a Writers on unforgettable friendships 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c [2011] 300 $a 222 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 $t Darryl Pinckney on Elizabeth Hardwick. $t Virgil Thomson on Gertrude Stein -- $t Jonathan Miller on Lenny Bruce -- $t Robert Lowell on John Berryman -- $t Stephen Spender on W.H. Auden -- $t Mary McCarthy on Hannah Arendt -- $t John Thompson on Robert Lowell -- $t James Merrill on Elizabeth Bishop -- $t Isaiah Berlin on Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova -- $t Joseph Brodsky on Nadezhda Mandelstam -- $t Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale on George Balanchine -- $t John Richardson on Douglas Cooper -- $t Hector Bianciotti on Jorge Luis Borges -- $t Gore Vidal on Dawn Powell -- $t Bruce Chatwin on George Ortiz -- $t Philip Roth on Ivan Klima -- $t Elena Bonner on Andrei Sakharov -- $t Elizabeth Hardwick on Murray Kempton -- $t Aileen Kelly on Isaiah Berlin -- $t Murray Kempton on Frank Sinatra -- $t Adam Michnik on Zbigniew Herbert -- $t John Updike on Saul Steinberg -- $t Jonathan Mirsky on Noel Annan -- $t Alison Lurie on Edward Gorey -- $t Ian Buruma on John Schlesinger -- $t Darryl Pinckney on Elizabeth Hardwick. 520 $a "A companion volume to The company they kept, in this book more of our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other.Praise for The company they kept: an extraordinarily striking, moving and delicious collection of short essays...The writing in most more...of these essays is dazzling, the anecdotes and insights even more so. It is a superb collection of vignettes, and their variety throws more light on the diversity and possibilities than a treatise could. -The Financial Times contributors to the review have written about their personal relationships, and this volume brings together 27 memoirs of friendship. This volume should be read piece by marvelous piece. -The Chicago Tribune Whether found or surprisingly frank, these essays are soothing in their intimacy, their acceptance of fallible fellow humans. 'As always,' writes Robert Oppenheimer of Albert Einstein, 'the myth has its charms; but the truth is far more beautiful.' -O Magazine Silvers and Epstein have assembled a remarkable set of essays by friends of prominent musicians, scientists, poets, and novelists...These wonderful reminiscences will renew readers' appreciation for those unpredictable joys shared between all close friends." --Publisher description. 650 0 $a Authors $v Biography. 650 0 $a Friendship. 700 1 $a Silvers, Robert B., $e author of introduction. $e author of introduction. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190607010423.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0900F2AA88EA11E98E15CEFC96128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search