{"product_id":"long-voyage-malcolm-cowley-9780674051065","title":"Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987","description":"\u003cp\u003eCritic, poet, editor, chronicler of the \"lost generation,\" and elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to much of twentieth-century American literary and political life. These letters, the vast majority previously unpublished, provide an indelible self-portrait of Cowley and his time, and make possible a full appreciation of his long and varied career. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerhaps no other writer aided the careers of so many poets and novelists. Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Kerouac, Tillie Olsen, and John Cheever are among the many authors Cowley knew and whose work he supported. A poet himself, Cowley enjoyed the company of writers and knew how to encourage, entertain, and when necessary scold them. At the center of his epistolary life were his friendships with Kenneth Burke, Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken, and Edmund Wilson. By turns serious and thoughtful, humorous and gossipy, Cowley's letters to these and other correspondents display his keen literary judgment and ability to navigate the world of publishing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe letters also illuminate Cowley's reluctance to speak out against Stalin and the Moscow Trials when he was on staff at \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e--and the consequences of his agonized evasions. His radical past would continue to haunt him into the Cold War era, as he became caught up in the notorious \"Lowell Affair\" and was summoned to testify in the Alger Hiss trials. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHans Bak supplies helpful notes and a preface that assesses Cowley's career, and Robert Cowley contributes a moving foreword about his father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Malcolm Cowley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674051068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674051065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 6.44w x 2.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/07\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2014 pg. 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2014","brand":"Malcolm Cowley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086757671167,"sku":"9780674051065","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be385ab5-9915-450f-baa5-0b08bc0f3c15.jpg?v=1769096401","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/long-voyage-malcolm-cowley-9780674051065","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}