Reviews for About Burt Britton, John Cheever, Gordon Lish, William Saroyan, Isaac B. Singer, Kurt Vonnegut

The average rating for About Burt Britton, John Cheever, Gordon Lish, William Saroyan, Isaac B. Singer, Kurt Vonnegut based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-12-11 00:00:00 Michael Bornemann An Australian writer's narrative accounts of his meetings with writers and other "book people." Of particular interest to me is the Burt Britton piece. As a bookseller at STRAND in the late '60s and early '70s, Burt Britton made a hobby of asking authors to draw self-portraits. He became sort of infamous for doing this. In 1976, Random House published Britton's collection of 500+ author drawings in a book called "Self-Portrait: Book People Picture Themselves." Lurie's fascinating piece on Britton is perhaps the most thorough account of Britton's peculiar notoriety.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-06-03 00:00:00 Frank Legnaioli Interesting to read in its time. A lot has changed in scholarship around the Lost Generation.