Our Private Lives: Journals, Notebooks, and Diaries

by Daniel Halpern

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Journals and diaries are the most intimate form of writing. But by defintion, these wellsprings of self-reflection are meant for the writer's eye alone, depriving the reading public of insight into a crucial step in the creative process. This invaluable anthology, re-issued by Ecco, gathers the private thoughts of many of the most praised novelists, essayists, and poets (and one American president) of our time and exposes the writerly sensibilty at its purest, freshest, and least show more constrained. Paul Bowles observes the daily violence in his quarter of Tangier. Lawrence Durrell muses on the orgasm -- "the heart's pacemaker." Dmitri Nabokov records his vigil at his father's deathbed. And Edna O'Brien gossips snidely about the literary gossips of London. Witty, eloquent, sardonic, or pleasingly mundane, these forty selections pierce the writers' solitude and allow us to enter their very private world. show less

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Daniel Halpern was born on September 11, 1945 in Syracuse, New York. He received a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University in 1972. He has been an instructor in poetry at Princeton University, New School of Social Research, and Columbia University. He began working at Ecco Press in New York City in 1969, and later became show more editor-in-chief. He has written several collections of poetry including Traveling on Credit, Tango and Something Shining: Poems. He has edited anthologies of both poetry and prose including Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets, The American Poetry Anthology, and The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories. He has won several awards and honors as an editor including the Jessie Rehder Poetry Award, YMHA Discovery Award, and the Great Lakes Colleges National Book Award. (Bowker Author Biography) Daniel Halpern is editorial director of The Ecco Press/HarperCollins & the author of seven previous books of poetry. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife & daughter. (Publisher Provided) show less

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Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir
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808.88Literature & rhetoricLiterature, rhetoric & criticismRhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literaturesLiterature CollectionsCollections of miscellaneous writings
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PN453 .J68Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Literary historyBiography
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