Book description
This fascinating anthology collects notable New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth centuryâincluding work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, and Muriel Sparkâalongside new assessments of the 1960s by some of todayâs finest writers.
Here are real-time accounts of these years, brought toâŚ
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Finder curated a retrospective collection of 60s books, theatre, music, television, poetry, architecture, and politics. It opens with passages from Rachel Carsonâs Silent Spring, Truman Capoteâs In Cold Blood, James Baldwin on civil rights, and Hannah Arendt on Eichmann.
Then John Updike muses on the big bang theory, E. J. Kahn, Jr. captures Harvard professorsâ view of student protest. Next Kenneth Tynan reviews Bye Bye Birdie, Lillian Ross listens to Sergeant Pepper, then teams with Jane Kramer to parse Marshal McLuhan. Robert Rice muses on the humour of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and A. J. LieblingâŚ
From Seymour's list on understanding 60âs back-to-the-land hippies.
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December on 5C4
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa storiesâall reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argueâŚ
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