

Life in Culture
Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling
Author: Lionel Trilling, Adam Kirsch
Narrator: Paul Heitsch
Unabridged: 17 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/16/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Synopsis
To his New York intellectual peers, Trilling could seem reserved and circumspect. But in his selected letters, Trilling is revealed in all his variousness and complexity. We witness his ardent courtship of Diana Trilling, who would become an eminent intellectual in her own right; his alternately affectionate and contentious rapport with former students such as Allen Ginsberg and Norman Podhoretz; the complicated politics of Partisan Review and other fabled magazines of the period; and Trilling's relationships with other leading writers of the period, including Saul Bellow, Edmund Wilson, and Norman Mailer.
In Life in Culture, edited by Adam Kirsch, Trilling's letters add up to an intimate portrait of a great critic, and of America's intellectual journey from the political passions of the 1930s to the cultural conflicts of the 1960s and beyond.