Door to the River: Essays and Reviews from the 1960s Into the Digital Age Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Aram Saroyan
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So begins Aram Saroyan's essay, "Occupation: Writer," about his vocation, the sixties generation, and the fundamental task of coming to understand himself not as the son of William Saroyan but as his own person. Saroyan found his calling as a writer early on, starting out as a poet, and going on to write op-ed pieces, reviews, novels, biographies, memoirs, screenplays, and plays. In this essay and others included here, he explores the difficult task of finding one's way as a writer: the ongoing search for the various doors which must be opened in order to renew one's resources and access the river of creativity.
Both the contemporaneous essays and the earlier reviews from the 1970s, '80s and '90s assess major and minor cultural figures from the generation of which Saroyan himself was so much a representative member, and recall a time when being an independent writer was feasible, when even a young author could hone his craft and critical sensibility through book reviews and op-ed pieces. In these works, Saroyan contends for books that make for good companionship, what Jack Kerouac decreed was the true test of a book. In Saroyan's engaging and always engaged company, with the likes of Andy Warhol and Charles Mingus, Robert Creeley and Ted Berrigan, Joan Didion and Gore Vidal, Door to the River is good companionship as well.
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- Title Door to the River: Essays and Reviews from the 1960s Into the Digital Age
- Author Aram Saroyan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Black Sparrow Press, Jaffrey, NH, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2010-03
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781567923964 / 1567923968
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009022389
- Dewey Decimal Code 814.54
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- Publishers Weekly, 01/18/2010, Page 37
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