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by: Alfred Leslie
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 650
EAN: 9780924047121
ISBN: 0924047127
Label: Host Publications
Manufacturer: Host Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: November 10, 1999
Publisher: Host Publications
Sales Rank: 1053178
Studio: Host Publications
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Published as a one-shot review in late 1960, The Hasty Papers was immediately embraced by the literary and art communities for the courage of its ideas and means of expression. Legendary painter Willem de Kooning called it a '... a snapshot of us all.'Marvelous and unruly, the works by artists, poets, critics, politicians and others brought together in a single publication created a vivid portrait of the moment and the future. Scorned at the time by the establishment and known mostly to their peers, many of the contributors are today's acknowledged masters.
The millennium version of this historic publication contains some 400 new photographs; an introduction by poet David Lehman; The Story of The Hasty Papers, related by Alfred Leslie in Pushkin's sonnet form; and Brother Can You Spare a Dime, an epistolary novel of sorts, documenting the making of The Hasty Papers in 111 letters to and from authors and the editors.
Contributors include: Alfred Leslie, David Lehman, Jean Paul Sartre, Pontus Hulten, Gregory Corso, James Schuyler, Walter Harrison Mason, Hannelore Hahn, Frank O'Hara, Joel Oppenheimer, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Aristophones, Jack Kerouac, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Donald Windham, Charles Olson, Derek Walcott, Kenward Elmslie, William Carlos Williams, Billy Kluver, Alan Ansen, Terry Southern, Gael Turnbull, Peter Orlovsky, Alfred Jensen, Meyer Liben, Jean Genet, Kenneth Koch and Fitzhugh Ludlow (an entire novel). Also included is the uncut text of Fidel Castro's 1960 speech to the United Nations with the point by point response by the United States.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - An old friend
I owned the original, bought around 1962 or so.
I've always wondered what happened to it. No doubt it was ripped off by a friend who foresaw better than I that someday it would be revered as a classic.
At the time it seemed the precursor of a tide of similar publications, some of which, one hoped, would improve upon it with more discriminating content.
Nope. It was a one-shot, and this, perhaps as much as anything else aout it, escalated the literary stock ... Read More
Rating: - An excellent reprint of a true literary classic.
This millennium edition of Leslie's One Shot Review is an excellent reprint returning a classic to new audiences. Originally published in 1960, this volume provides work by some of the finest 20th century authors from Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Koch to Terry Southern. Also included: Fidel Castro's 1960 address to the U.N. This millennium edition contains a narrative poem by the author commenting on the origins of the original Hasty Papers. A keepsake literary work in an oversized presentation, ... Read More
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