Geoffrey O'Brien

Born 1948 New York City. Author of books including Hardboiled America (1981), Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties (1988), The Phantom Empire (1993), The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading (2000), Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears (2004), The Fall of the House of Walworth (2010), Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002-2012 (2013), Where Did Poetry Come From: Some Early Encounters (2020), and Arabian Nights of 1934 (2023); ten collections of poetry most recently Went Like It Came (2023). Editor-in-chief, The Library of America (retired 2018). General editor, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Contributor to The New York Review of BooksFilm Comment, and other periodicals.

 

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