Love, Loosha

The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie

Chip Livingston (Herausgeber)

Lucia Berlin, Kenward Elmslie (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2024
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-6731-0 (ISBN)

Lieferbar (Termin unbekannt)
Portofrei ab CHF 40
Auch auf Rechnung

Artikel merken

The extraordinary collection of letters between Lucia Berlin and her dear friend, the poet and Broadway lyricist Kenward Elmslie. Written between 1994 and 2004, their correspondence reveals the lives, work, and literary obsessions of two great American writers.

At the time of her death in 2004, Lucia Berlin was known as a brilliant writer of short stories, beloved by other writers but never achieving wide readership or acclaim. That changed in 2015 with the publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, a collection of some of her best work. Almost overnight, Lucia Berlin became an international bestseller as readers everywhere fell in love with her smoky, gin-soaked voice--at once dark and yearning, funny and wry, naive and wise.

Love, Loosha is the extraordinary collection of letters between Lucia Berlin and her dear friend, the poet and Broadway lyricist Kenward Elmslie. Written between 1994 and 2004, their correspondence reveals the lives, work, and literary obsessions of two great American writers. Berlin and Elmslie discuss publishing and social trends, political correctness, and offending others and being offended. They gossip. They dish. They entertain--for not only are Elmslie and Berlin writing to each other, they are writing for each other.

Chip Livingston is the author of five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and is a professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a former fiction student and close friend of Lucia Berlin, and, upon Lucia's introduction and suggestion, he became Kenward Elmslie's personal assistant for ten years. Lucia Berlin was the author of several short-story collections. In 2015 A Manual for Cleaning Women was published posthumously and became both a New York Times and an international bestseller. Kenward Elmslie was a member of the New York School of poetry, having written fifteen books of poems, several plays, and a novel as well as opera librettos and books and lyrics for Broadway and off-Broadway musicals.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction

Part I. 1994–2000

Letters from Maxwell Avenue, Boulder, CO

Letters from Calais, VT, and New York, NY

Part II. 2000–2001

Letters from Valmont Road, Boulder, CO

Letters from Calais, VT, and New York, NY

Part III. 2001–2003

Letters from Croyden Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Letters from Calais, VT, and New York, NY

Part IV. 2003–2004

Letters from Washington Blvd., Marina del Rey, CA

Letters from Calais, VT, and New York, NY

Afterword

“Who’ll Prop Me Up in the Rain?”

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.10.2024
Zusatzinfo	20 illustrations
Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
ISBN-10	0-8263-6731-3 / 0826367313
ISBN-13	978-0-8263-6731-0 / 9780826367310
Zustand	Neuware