In this Book
- The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog
Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York’s literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. In this vivid account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village and the bohemian outposts of Paris’s Left Bank and Tangier—where you could write poetry, be radical, and be openly gay—Field opens the closet door to reveal, as never been seen before, some of the most important writers of his time.
Here are young, beautiful Susan Sontag sitting at the feet of her idol Alfred Chester, who shrewdly plotted to marry her; May Swenson and her two loves; Paul and Jane Bowles in their ambiguous marriage; Frank O’Hara in and out of bed; Fritz Peters, the anointed son of Gurdjieff; and James Baldwin, Isabel Miller (Patience and Sarah), Tobias Schneebaum, Robert Friend, and many others. With its intimate portraits, Field’s memoir brings back a forgotten era—postwar bohemia—bawdy, comical, romantic, sad, and heroic.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- p. xv
- Chapter 10
- pp. 87-95
- Chapter 11
- pp. 96-102
- Chapter 12
- pp. 103-115
- Chapter 13
- pp. 129-134
- Chapter 14
- pp. 135-139
- Chapter 15
- pp. 140-143
- Chapter 16
- pp. 144-157
- Chapter 17
- pp. 158-175
- Chapter 18
- pp. 176-184
- Chapter 19
- pp. 185-205
- Chapter 20
- pp. 206-215
- Chapter 21
- pp. 216-221
- Chapter 22
- pp. 222-228
- Chapter 23
- pp. 229-243
- Chapter 24
- pp. 244-265
- Chapter 25
- pp. 266-277
Additional Information
Copyright
2007