The Luck of Friendship
The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin
3 April 2018
Description
Four decades of correspondence of Tennessee Williams’s and James Laughlin’s unlikely yet enduring literary and personal relationship.
A friendship struck in 1942 would last for forty-one years through critical acclaim and rejection, commercial success and failure, manic highs, bouts of depression, and serious and not-so-serious liaisons. Tennessee Williams’s and James Laughlin’s letters provide a window into the literary history of the mid-twentieth century.
Reviews
"Ultimately these letters show us that while Tennessee Williams’s own tragic ending left theatre the poorer for it, their unique insight in to one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century leaves us all the richer." — The Irish Times
Also By: James Laughlin 
Christmas Poems
E Book, 2014
Awake the voice! Awake the string!
Dark and dull night fly hence away,
And give the honor of this day
That sees December turned to May.
—William Herrick
The Collected Poems of James Laughlin
Hardback, 2014
Finally collected are all the poems of James Laughlin — a classic poet of Catullan sensibility hiding in plain sight as an avant-garde publisher and the “Godfather of Modernism”
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
E Book, 2013
"This is quintessential Merton."—The Catholic Review.
Christmas Poems
Paperback, 2008
Awake the voice! Awake the string!
Dark and dull night fly hence away,
And give the honor of this day
That sees December turned to May.
—William Herrick
The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin
Paperback, 2007
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.
Also By: Tennessee Williams
Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
Paperback, 2016
“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams
Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
E Book, 2016
“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams
The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams
E Book, 2016
All of the author's previously published poems, including poems from the plays, are in this definitive edition.
A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy
E Book, 2016
The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time.
Spring Storm
E Book, 2016
"A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work."—World Literature Today
Also By: Thomas Keith
Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
Paperback, 2016
“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee WilliamsNow the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
E Book, 2016
“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee WilliamsA House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy
E Book, 2016
The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time.
A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy
Paperback, 2009
The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time.
