author: george cotkin

... Vegas, not even the crime, is understated. Charles Manson would thrive in ... American dream in the casino Circus Circus. Built in 1968, at a cost of ... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas proved difficult for Thompson. The first part came ...

... Mailer's life and times , see Mary V. Dearborn , Mailer : A Biography ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1999 ) . Exis ... The Naked and the Dead . See Adams , Existential Battles : The Growth of Norman Mailer ( Athens : Ohio Uni- versity ...

... Music of Changes. Only a virtuoso pianist like David Tudor, who was deeply in synch with Cage's experimentalism, could have flawlessly mastered the mixed tempi, constant pedal changes, and strange emphases. Poet John Ashbery attended ...

Journeys with Moby-Dick George Cotkin. Ahab has, of course, his own pop-up ... tab can move Moby in a circular manner as the vortex he has created drives ... MobyDick in his early thirties, close to Melville's age when he had composed his ...

... Essay on Philosophy and Literature ( Lon- don and New York : Metheun , 1987 ) , 5–30 . 26. William James , " Preface , " in The Will to Believe ... Believe , 39–40 ... the American Province : Studies in the History and Histo- riography of Ideas ...

... Sartre might well have read or discussed with Rosenberg while in New York in the winter of 1946 . Sartre wrote Dirty Hands , one of his most important plays , around Christ- mas of 1947 , while he and Beauvoir were on a working vacation ...