{"product_id":"in-dreams-begin-responsibilities-and-other-stories-9780811220033","title":"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories","description":"Now with an exciting new preface by Lou Reed (Delmore Schwartz's student at Syracuse), \u003cem\u003eIn Dreams Begin Responsibilities\u003c\/em\u003e collects eight of Schwartz's finest delineations of New York's intellectuals in the 1930s and 1940s. As no other writer can, Schwartz captures the speech, the generational conflicts, the mocking self-analysis of educated, ambitious, Depression-stymied young people at odds with their immigrant parents. This is the unique American dilemma Irving Howe described as \"that interesting point where intellectual children of immigrant Jews are finding their way into the larger world while casting uneasy, rueful glances over their backs.\" Afterwords by James Atlas and Irving Howe place the stories in their historical and cultural setting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHowe, Irving:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eIrving Howe\u003c\/b\u003e was a literary and social critic, as well as a prominent member in the Democratic Socialists of America party.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReed, Lou:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eLou Reed\u003c\/b\u003e's (b. 1942) most recent releases include \u003ci\u003eRomanticism\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of photographs, and \u003ci\u003eLou Reed's Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e, the Julian Schnabel-filmed record of a multi-media performance of Reed's iconic 1973 album. The guitarist and principal songwriter for The Velvet Underground, he has enjoyed a long and successful solo career. His book of photographs, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2008.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchwartz, Delmore:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDelmore Schwartz\u003c\/strong\u003e (1913-1966) was born and raised in Brooklyn. One of America's greatest poets and short-story writers, Schwartz contributed \"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities\" to the first issue of \u003cem\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/em\u003e in 1937. Schwartz taught at Syracuse, Princeton, and Kenyon College, and received the Bollingen Prize in 1959. After a difficult period of alchoholism and depression, he died of a heart attack in 1966.\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629039063314,"sku":"9780811220033","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6c3b4daa-1929-4bda-b85c-dec6f9ae61fc.jpg?v=1732717966","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-dreams-begin-responsibilities-and-other-stories-9780811220033","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}