Visions & Voices - Hardcover

Cott, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 0385241445 ISBN 13: 9780385241441

Publisher: Doubleday, 1987

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About the Author:

Jonathan Cott is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and has written for The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is the author of 19 books, including Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children's Literature and, Days That I’ll Remember: Spending Time with John and Yoko. He collaborated with Maurice Sendak on the book Victorian Color Picture Books, and he is the editor of Beyond the Looking Glass: Extraordinary Works of Fairy Tale and Fantasy. He lives in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

Interviewer Cott (The Search for Omm Sety, etc.) makes himself familiar with his subjects, then goes deep inside their minds. In one of the 10 conversations here, Bob Dylan explains why he believes Jesus had to die after taking on the bad karma of the people he healed. Sam Shepard tells Cott why it's easier to go crazy than it is to stay sane. Federico Fellini asserts that the modern storyteller must blend the roles of trickster, prophet and magician. The dialogues are linked only to the extent that they mirror Cott's own interests and preoccupations. Yet, because he is so attuned to each of his subjects, he lifts the art of interviewing to a new dimension. In one of the strongest pieces, poet Carolyn Forche gives a firsthand account of torture in El Salvador. Also spotlighted are Peter Brook, George Balanchine, Pierre Boulez, Marie-Louise von Franz, Oliver Sacks and rabbi Lawrence Kushner, an authority on Jewish mysticism.
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