Conversations with Edmund White

Will Brantley, Nancy McGuire Roche

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781496813558
• eBook ISBN: 9781496813565
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews highlight White's predilections, his major achievements, and the pivotal moments of his long, varied career.

Since the 1973 publication of his first novel, Forgetting Elena, Edmund White (b. 1940) has become a major figure in literature and gay culture. White is, however, more than just a celebrated gay writer. He is an international man of letters, and his work crosses several genres. White's fiction includes an autobiographical trilogy—A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony—along with more recent novels such as Jack Holmes and His Friend and Our Young Man. White's love of French literature and culture is evident in biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud, and his antipathy to American Puritanism suffuses his collected essays and memoirs and is on full display in two early nonfiction works that helped define the era of gay liberation: The Joy of Gay Sex, coauthored with Charles Silverstein, and States of Desire: Travels in Gay America.

A professor of creative writing at Princeton University, White has earned many distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award. White has been a generous interviewer, sharing his time and insights not only with major publications such as The Paris Review, but also with smaller online publications for more limited audiences. A lively commentator, White has never been afraid to speak his mind, even when the result has been public feuds with literary peers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

Adair, Gilbert

AIDES (nonprofit organization)

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome); activism; in Africa; and the body; and relationships; response from gay community; and self-loathing; and sense of unreality; treatment and prevention; writing about

Altman, Dennis, Homosexual

American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Psychiatric Association

American Psychological Association

Amis, Martin

Antaeus

Aristotle

Artaud, Antonin

Ashbery, John

Austen, Jane

“Aux yeux de Mme Beaufort”

Baker, Nicholson, U and I

Balanchine, George; Agon; Don Quixote; Symphony in C

Baldwin, James; Giovanni’s Room

Balzac, Honoré de; Séraphîta

Banville, John

Barber, Stephen, Edmund White

Barrymore, John

Barth, John

Barthelme, Donald

Barthes, Roland

Baudelaire, Charles; “Correspondences”

Bawer, Bruce; A Place at the Table

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

Beardsley, Aubrey

Bellow, Saul

Bergman, David

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo

Berryman, John, Stephen Crane

Bianchi, Tom, In Defense of Beauty

Birch, Charles

Bishop, Elizabeth

Blake, William

Blazey, Peter

Bloomsbury Publishing

Borgia, Cesare

Botton, Alain de, How Proust Can Change Your Life

Bowen, Elizabeth

Brainard, Joe, I Remember

Bram, Christopher, Eminent Outlaws

Bretagne, Charles

Bringing Up Baby

Brodkey, Harold

Brown University

Brunhoff, Marie-Claude de

Bulgakov, Mikhail

Burroughs, William

Bush, George W.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon)

Caffe Cino

Cambridge University

Campbell, Naomi

Camus, Albert, The Stranger

Canova, Antonio

Carmen

Carpentier, Alejo

Carroll, Michael

Carver, Raymond

Cassells, Cyrus

Castro, Fidel

Chateaubriand, François-René de, Les Mémoires d’outre tombe

Chauncey, George; Gay New York

Chekhov, Anton

Christopher Street

Cixous, Hélène

Claudel, Paul

Cocteau, Jean, The Imposter

Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle

Columbia University

Comfort, Alex, The Joy of Sex

Condé Nast

Conrad, Joseph

Conroy, Stephen, “The Architect’s Dog”

Coover, Robert

Copland, Aaron

Coppola, Sofia, The Virgin Suicides

Corn, Alfred

Corneille, Pierre

Cox, Christopher

Cranbrook Schools

Crane, Cora (Cora Ethel Eaton Howarth)

Crane, Stephen

Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de

Crystal Boys: A Novel

Cunningham, Michael

Dante Alighieri

Daudet, Alphonse, Sapho

de Gaulle, Charles

de Kooning, Willem

Dean, James

Defert, Daniel

DiCaprio, Leonardo

Dickens, Charles; The Old Curiosity Shop

Diderot, Denis, Les Bijoux Indiscrets

Douglas, Lord Alfred

Dostoevsky, Fyodor; The Brothers Karamazov

Doty, Mark

Dowell, Coleman

Duchess (lesbian bar)

E. P. Dutton

East Village Other

Edinburgh International Book Festival

Éditions Gallimard

Elgrably, Jordan

Eliot, T. S.

Ellis, Havelock

Ellmann, Richard, Oscar Wilde

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Eye

Faber & Faber

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Faulkner, William

Ferro, Robert

Finisterre

Firbank, Ronald

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Tender Is the Night

Flaubert, Gustave; Madame Bovary

Fleming, Keith (nephew)

Ford, Richard

Forster, E. M.; Maurice

Foucault, Michel; The Birth of the Clinic

Fowlie, Wallac...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chronology
• PW Interviews: Edmund White
• An Interview with Edmund White
• Edmund White: The Art of Fiction 105
• An Interview with Edmund White
• Paris Interview with Edmund White
• From the Stonewall to The Burning Library: Interview with Edmund White
• The Day That Edmund White Kissed Me
• Edmund White in Conversation
• Edmund White
• Edmund White: The Man Who Wrote The Married Man
• The Sensual Part of Beauty Is the Wound
• AIDS, Arts, and Responsibilities: An Interview with Edmund White
• Line of Beauty: Laurie Taylor Interviews Edmund White
• Edmund White: Hotel de Dream
• Poetry as a “Disordering of the Senses”
• New York City Boy: A Conversation with Edmund White
• An Interview with Edmund White
• Interview: Edmund White
• Edmund White: Invention, Imagination, and Memory
• Q&A with Edmund White
• The Art of Being Edmund White: A Capstone Interview
• Index