New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. The landmark study from Susan Sontag (1933-2004), the notoriously opinionated, pioneering American author and literary critic. Sontag famously befriended our Patron Saint-&-Demon here at Third Mind Books, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) among several other writers of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond. This relation to the Beat Generation continues to be a source of fascination for Beat scholars and dedicated readers of..... More

New York, NY, USA: The American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Inc., 1965. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage 1965 number of the venerable literary & cultural journal then-chiefly edited by William Phillips & Philip Rahv Features a (somewhat snooty if you ask us) review of Saul Bellow's (1915-2005) now-classic novel Herzog by Richard Poirier (1925-2009), the noted American literary critic who co-founded the canonical Library of America (pgs. 264-271). Also in..... More