Lavishly illustrated, The Way It Wasn't offers an intimate firsthand encounter with 20th-century Modernism, from the extraordinary man who defined it for America James Laughlinpoet, ladies' man, heir to a steel fortune, and the founder of New Directionswas still at work on his autobiography when he died at 83 He left behind personal files ожэфп crammed with memories and memorabilia: in "M" he is taking Marianne Moore to Yankee games (outings captured here in charming snapshots) to discuss "arcane mammals," and in "N" nearly plunging off a mountain, hunting butterflies with Nabokov ("Volya was a doll in a very severe upper-crust Russian way") With an accent on humor, The Way It Wasn't is a scrapbook loaded with ephemeraletters and memories, clippings and photographs This richly illustrated album glitters like a magpie's nest, if a magpie could have known Tennessee Williams, W C Williams, Merton, Miller, Stein, and Pound In "C": "I wish that nice Jean Cocteau were still around He took me to lunch at the Grand VA©fours in the Palais-Royal and explained all about flying saucers He understood mechanical things He would advise me " In "P": "There was not much 'gracious living' in Pittsburgh, where at one house, the butler passed chewing gum on a silver salver after coffee " And: "The world is full of a large number of irritating people " In "H" there's Lillian Hellman: "What a raspy character When I knocked at her door to try to borrow one of her books (hoping to butter her up) she only opened her door four inches and said words to the effect: 'Fuck off, you rapist '" Marketing in "M": "I think it's important to get the 'troubadours' into the title That's a 'buy-me' word " In "G": "Olga asked Allen Ginsberg if he was also buying Pound Conference T-shirts for his grandchildren She was most lovable throughout " In "L": "Wyndham Lewis wrote 'Why don't you stop New Directions, your books are crap '" And we find love in "L": "Cicero noted that an old love pinches like a crab " But in The Way It Wasn't James Laughlin's love of the crazy world and his crazier authors does not pinch a bit: it glows with wit and enlarges our feeling for the late great twentieth century.  Иногда так2006 г Твердый переплет, 288 стр ISBN 0811216764.