Richard Kostelanetz
- Preambles
- All Along the Edge
- Choice Bits
- Las Vegas Performance
- Book of Kostis
- Contemporary American Literacy
- Modern Polyartistry
- End of Intelligent Writing, reprint
- More On Innovative Music(ian)s
- Autobiogaphies at 50 & 60
- Book-Art & Alternative Publishing
- A Literary Life in America
- Animated Music
- Artists in America
- Arts & Artists in America
- Master Minds, rev. ed.
- The Maturity of American Thought
- Great American Comedians
- Continuing Tradition of the New
- Charles Ives and the American Imagination
- Special Sounds: The Art of Radio in North America
- Great Jewish Cemetery of Berlin
- Sports & Sportsmen
- Elizabeth Streb
- More Crimes of Culture
- The Fall and Rise of the Rockaways
- Home & Away: Tavel Essays
- American Composers in Their Own Words
- The Art of Literary Demolition
- Possibilities of Longer Poetry
- Alternative American Autobiographies
- The American Tradition in Poetry
- John Cage's Poetry
- Foster Damon's Uncollected Writings
- Libertarian Tradition: American Anarchist Thought
- E.E. Cummings ReConSidered
- Conceptual Dance: Choreographic Comedies
- An Emma Goldman Reader
- American Composers as Writers
- AnOther Ogden Nash
- Classic Essays on Rock
- New American Radio Plays
- Second Anthology of Merce Criticism
Proposal for a structurally alternative Autobiographies at Fifty and Autobiographies at 60
Like its conceptually original predecessor, Autobiographies (Mudborn, 1981), these new books are not a chronological narrative, like most autobiographies, but a pastiche of autobiographical materials, on the assumption (dear to me) that an audobiographical gathering contains more truth than any attempt to force a conventional exposition. Nothing from the previous volume is included, though I hope to draw upon the German Autobiographien New York Berlin (Merve, 1985), which contained some new material. Imaginatively designed first by Peter Buchanan-Smith and then by Aryeh Cohen-Wade as a 192-page dummy, 8 1/2†high, 11†wide, Autobiographies at Fifty contains "Person of Letters in the Contemporary World," from Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, Vol. VIII (1989); "Keeping Afloat in New York: A Memoir" from Menu (1985) and, revised, Home Planet News (1989); “My House Wordship,†and two extended interviews, each section imaginatively designed. As before, one recurring theme of these essays is surviving as an independent writer. As the principal changes in my life in this decade resulted from living and working in Europe, several chapters will draw upon essays reflecting this subject "A New Yorker's Berlin," from Exquisite Corpse (1985) and Views of Berlin (Birkhauser, 1989); my contribution to "Writing and Politics" in Fiction International (1984). It also incorporates new examples of self-revelatory documents similar to those included in the predecessor, including "1986," "Alternative Complements," “Career Contradictions,†and "Dedications." Autobiographies at Sixty, similar in structure, reprints from the 1990s. Any publisher interested in considering the camera-ready dummies should contact me. Thank you.