Table of contents for Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays / Joan Acocella.
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List of Illustrations
Introduction
A Fire in the Brain / Lucia Joyce
Blocked / Writer’s Block
True Confessions / Italo Svevo
Quicksand / Stefan Zweig
The Frog and the Crocodile / Simone de Beauvoir
Becoming the Emperor / Marguerite Yourcenar
A Hard Case / Primo Levi
European Dreams / Joseph Roth
The Neapolitan Finger / Andrea de Jorio
The Saintly Sinner / Mary Magdalene
After the Ball Was Over / Vaslav Nijinsky
Heroes and Hero Worship / Lincoln Kirstein
“Sweet as a Fig” / Frederick Ashton
American Dancer / Jerome Robbins
Second Act / Suzanne Farrell
The Soloist / Mikhail Baryshnikov
The Flame / Martha Graham
Dancing and the Dark / Bob Fosse
The Bottom Line / Twyla Tharp
On the Contrary / H. L. Mencken
After the Laughs / Dorothy Parker
Feasting on Life / M. F. K. Fisher
Finding Augie March / Saul Bellow
Piecework / Sybille Bedford
The Spider’s Web / Louise Bourgeois
Assassination on a Small Scale / Penelope Fitzgerald
The Hunger Artist / Susan Sontag
Counterlives / Philip Roth
Perfectly Frank / Frank O’Hara
Devil’s Work / Hilary Mantel
Burned Again / Joan of Arc
Acknowledgments
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Artists -- Psychology.
Suffering.
Arts, Modern -- 20th century.