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Introduction by James Dempsey     xi
Essays:
Hubert Selby: The Counterpoint to the Demon is Love     3
Abandoning Hope to Discover Life: Commemorating the 51st Anniversary of the Grove Press Edition of Tropic of Cancer, with a Special Tribute to Barney Rosset     7
A Review of Kerouac Ascending: Memorabilia of the Decade of ‘On the Road’ by Elbert Lenrow. Edited by Katherine H. Burkman. Introduction by Howard Cun-nell     35
On the Trail of the ‘Elusive’ Lillian and Marion More-house     41
Interviews:
Albert Hofmann: An Appreciation. A Brief Exchange with the Discoverer of LSD     87
The Charmed Life: A Conversation with Michael Kor-da     94
Remembering the Deluge: An Interview with Jeffrey Jackson, Author of Paris Under Water and Making Jazz French     112
An Interview with Robert Roper, Author of Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War     153
The Mystery of the Man: Justin Kaplan Talks About America’s Greatest Poet     182
An Interview with William Scott, Author of Trouble-makers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker     206
The Miracle of Unity. How Peace Mediator Robert De Sena Offers Gang Members a Way Out     227
‘When Feeling is First.’ A Conversation with Christo-pher Sawyer-Lauçanno About E. E. Cummings’s Prose Masterpiece, The Enormous Room     256
Paying Attention. Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno Talks About His New Book of Poems, Mussoorie-Montague Miscellany     298
James Dempsey Talks About The Tortured Life of Sco-field Thayer     323
A Conversation with Robert Roper, author of Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita     344

James Dempsey is a novelist, biographer and an award-winning journalist. A former instructor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he is the author of The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, The Court Poetry of Chaucer, Zakary’s Zombies, and Murphy’s American Dream. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Gail.