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I — Irish, Ireland, Irritating People

Posted in I. by New Directions on December 2, 2009

Tagged with: Pittsburgh, Irish, Scots, Kilt, Laughlins, Protestant Irish, Ireland, Oirrreland, Powerful Emoshunal Experience, Yeats, Schwarmey, Irritating People

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H — Hiram Handspring

Posted in H. by New Directions on November 30, 2009

Tagged with: Hiram Handspring, The New Yawper, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Errol Flynn, Foreign Legion, Structuralists, Femulists, Cowboy, Saskatoon University

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H — Hemingway

Posted in H. by New Directions on November 26, 2009

Tagged with: Hemingway, Vittorini, Milan, Easter, Salt Lake

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H — Hitler

Posted in H. by New Directions on November 23, 2009

Tagged with: Hitler, Reichsprasident, Paul von Hindenburg, Der Furer, Prussian Police

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H — Haeccity, Maude Hutchins, Harvard Magazine

Posted in H. by New Directions on November 20, 2009

Tagged with: E.E. Cummings, Haeccity, Melopoeic, Word of the Day, Substance, Thisness, Maude Hutchins, Chicago Tribune, The Dairy of Love, War, Peace, Harvard Magazine, Ogden Nash

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H — Hawkes

Posted in H. by New Directions on November 18, 2009

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Second Skin by John Hawkes

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Tagged with: Energy, John Hawkes, Letter, PhD Thesis Writers, Review

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G — Girls

Posted in G. by New Directions on November 15, 2009

Tagged with: Girls

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G — Ginsberg

Posted in G. by New Directions on November 13, 2009

Tagged with: Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bernstein, Cornelia Street, Grandchildren, Krishna, Olga, Phoenix Bookshop, Vishnu

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G — Greed, Girls

Posted in G. by New Directions on November 11, 2009

Tagged with: Albert Camus, Dylan Thomas, Feminists, Girls, Greed, Mulier, Puella, Woman

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F — Father

Posted in F. by New Directions on November 9, 2009

Tagged with: Automobilist, Beard, Lincoln, Manic, Papa, Pittsburgh, Race

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laughlin

About the Project

Every few days, we will post a page from James Laughlin's autobiography: The Way It Wasn't. The pages will be posted in order. His biography is a scrapbook of writings, letters, photos, poems, book covers, reminscenses about authors, dentists, and travel. The sections are organized alphabetically. This blog aims to work its way through, in patches, A to Z.

To buy the complete book, go here.

About the Book

James Laughlin -- poet, ladies' man, heir to a steel fortune, and the founder of New Directions -- was still at work on his autobiography when he died at 83. He left behind personal files crammed with memories and memorabilia: in "M" he is taking Marianne Moore to Yankee games (outings captured here in charming snapshots) to discuss "arcane mammals," and in "N" nearly plunging off a mountain, hunting butterflies with Nabokov ("Volya was a doll in a very severe upper-crust Russian way"). Buy the book!.

About the Press

New Directions began in 1936, when Ezra Pound told James Laughlin his poetry was "hopeless" and urged him to do "something useful" after he graduated from college. Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, who once had difficulty finding publishers, were early New Directions authors and have remained at the core of ND's backlist of modernist writers. New Directions now publishes about 30 books annually in hardcover and paperback.

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Chapters

A. (3)
B. (6)
C. (3)
D. (2)
E. (3)
F. (4)
G. (3)
H. (5)
I. (1)

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