John Tytell is best known for Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano and Naked Angels, an early history of the Beats. He had two new books appear in 2014: Writing Beat and Other Occasions of Literary Mayhem and The Beat Interviews.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Writing In Order to Live: On Maya Jasanoff’s “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World”
John Tytell ranges over “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World” by Maya Jasanoff....
Writing Lives: James Atlas on the Art of Biography
James Atlas chronicles the pleasures and perils of literary biography....
The Limelight Kid
John Tytell reviews Mary V. Dearborn’s new biography of Hemingway....
Monkeys Jumping Out of Boxes: The Editorial Life of Terry McDonell
John Tytell pores over “The Accidental Life” of legendary editor Terry McDonell....
Renegade Rosset
John Tytell on Barney Rosset, the gutsy dynamo of American alternative publishing....
The Endless War
Photography and the glamorization of battle, from the Greeks to modern-day journalism....
Moon Magic
John Tytell reviews Judith Malina's "Full Moon Stages: Personal Notes from 50 Years of The Living Theatre."...
Raucous Sounds: City Lights Pocket Poets at 60
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, features radical poets like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac....
