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Tennessee Williams New Selected Essays: Where I Live

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When Tennessee Williams had something to say, he could write a play, a poem, a story, or a letter. Fortunately he also wrote essays-erudite, emotional, witty, sly, self-deprecating, self-possessed, sharp, tender, vivid, and charming, these often surprising essays open an enormous picture window on the man and his work. Found here are insights into Williams’ creative process, as well as portraits of some of the great writers, directors, and actresses he knew and worked with such as Carson McCullers, William Inge, Elia Kazan, Tallulah Bankhead, Vivian Leigh, Geraldine Page, and Katharine Hepburn.

For most of his Broadway plays Williams composed an essay to be published just prior to opening, and many of these essays were collected in the 1978 volume, Where I Live, which is now revised by noted Williams’ scholar John S. Bak to include more of Williams’ theater essays, biographical essays, introductions and reviews, a section of juvenilia, as well as an insightful Afterword. Drama critic for The New Yorker, and celebrated essayist and biographer, John Lahr has contributed a superb Introduction for this expanded edition.