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A celebration of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who put Albany on the world's literary map.
The award-winning novelist William Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world's literary map alongside James Joyce's Dublin, Gabriel García Márquez's Macondo, and William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Bootlegger of the Soul offers a fresh and authoritative overview of Kennedy's long literary career and his astonishing trajectory from journalist to struggling novelist to Pulitzer Prize winner. Included here are reviews, interviews, and scholarly essays on Kennedy's work, as well as essays, speeches, a play, and a short story by the author himself, together with more than fifty historical and personal photographs. Lively, readable, and brimming with the infectious wit and lyrical prose that animates Kennedy's novels, Bootlegger of the Soul is a celebration of a writer still working hard at his craft at age ninety.
Contents
Preface: Conjuring Ghosts with William Kennedy Part I. About Kennedy and His Work: Reviews, Profiles, and Interviews
Introduction to Part One
The Sudden Fame of William Kennedy
Margaret Croyden
O Albany! O Kennedy!
Doris Grumbach
William Kennedy: Interview
Edward Schwarzschild
Human Capital: O Albany! Pays Homage to the Hard-to-Love City That Is the Greatest Hero of Kennedy's Novels
Stefan Beck
Violent Places: On Ghosts, Bums, and Redemption in Ironweed
Robert Towers
The Literary Brilliance of the Opening of Ironweed
Donald Newlove
Rattling Great Yarn: Quinn's Book
Fintan O'Toole
Family Values: William Kennedy's Very Old Bones
Thomas R. Edwards
Bootlegger of the Soul: An Introduction to Roscoe
Colum McCann
O Albany! Roscoe and the Triumph of Kennedy's Albany Cycle
Thomas Flanagan
World Premiere of Roscoe: American Opera at Its Finest
Anthony P. Radford
Jam Session: A Review of Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
John Sayles
An Interview with William Kennedy: From Novelist to Screenwriter
William Patrick
Photos: William Kennedy's Literary Biography Part II. Kennedy in His Own Words: Essays, Speeches, Memorial Tributes, and Creative Work
Introduction to Part Two
Why It Took So Long
Reinventing Albany in Fiction: Notes from a Native Son
Learning from Faulkner: The Obituary of Fear
Gifts from Joyce
Saul Bellow In Memoriam (1915-2005): A Great Insistent Gift
A Nonpareil Force Field: A Tribute to Norman Mailer
A Box of Books: An Exchange, on Matters Literary and Postal, with Hunter S. Thompson
The Secrets of Creative Love: A Short Story
In the System: A Technology Play
Photos: William Kennedy's Albany—The City and Inspiration
Part III. Scholarly Perspectives: Critical Views of Kennedy's Novels
Introduction to Part Three
William Kennedy as Journalist: Springboard to Novelist
Douglas Brinkley
Edward and Katrina Daugherty: A Match Made in Albany, Not in Heaven
Vivian Valvano Lynch
The Snows of Reduction: Representing Homelessness in Ironweed
Benedict Giamo
A Magical Time in Albany
Christian Michener
The Cyclical Impulse of The Flaming Corsage
Michael Patrick Gillespie
Courtesans, Stars, Wives, and Vixens: The Many Faces of Female Power in Kennedy's Novels
Neila C. Seshachari
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
