
Isherwood on Writing
The Complete Lectures in California
- 349 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Isherwood’s lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first time
In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities about his life and work. During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these free-flowing, wide-ranging public addresses together to reveal a distinctly American Isherwood at the top of his form.
This updated edition contains the long-lost conclusion to the second lecture, published here for the first time, including its discussion of A Single Man, his greatest novel, and A Meeting by the River, his final novel.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Books about Christopher Isherwood
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Editor’s Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The American Isherwood
- Part I: A Writer and His World, 1960
- Part II: The Autobiography of My Books, 1963–65
- Part III: Lecture Notes
- Editor’s Notes
- Index
- About the Authors