Love, Loosha : The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie

Berlin, Lucia/ Elmslie, Kenward/ Livingston, Chip (EDT)

University of New Mexico Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 344 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780826367310

Full Description

At the time of her death in 2004, Lucia Berlin was known as a brilliant writer of short stories, beloved by other writers but never achieving wide readership or acclaim. That changed in 2015 with the publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, a collection of some of her best work. Almost overnight, Lucia Berlin became an international bestseller as readers everywhere fell in love with her smoky, gin-soaked voice--at once dark and yearning, funny and wry, naive and wise.

Love, Loosha is the extraordinary collection of letters between Lucia Berlin and her dear friend, the poet and Broadway lyricist Kenward Elmslie. Written between 1994 and 2004, their correspondence reveals the lives, work, and literary obsessions of two great American writers. Berlin and Elmslie discuss publishing and social trends, political correctness, and offending others and being offended. They gossip. They dish. They entertain--for not only are Elmslie and Berlin writing to each other, they are writing for each other.

Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction

Part I. 1994-2000

Letters from Maxwell Avenue, Boulder, CO

Letters from Calais, VT, and New York, NY

Part II. 2000-2001

Letters from Valmont Road, Boulder, CO

Letters from Calais, VT, and New York, NY

Part III. 2001-2003

Letters from Croyden Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Letters from Calais, VT, and New York, NY

Part IV. 2003-2004

Letters from Washington Blvd., Marina del Rey, CA

Letters from Calais, VT, and New York, NY

Afterword

"Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain?"

References

Index