Full name: Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed: Essays

Author: Harlan Ellison Year: 1984 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Essays, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781497643239 1497643236

Harlan Ellison--master essayist, gadfly, literary myth figure, and viewer of dark portent--has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of complacency. In this collection, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and un-reprinted works to select twenty wide-ranging essays--nonfiction writings ranging from travelogue to media criticism, literary exploration to personal musing--that demonstrate why the monstre sacre of imaginative literature won the prestigious Silver Pen award from PEN International for his journalistic forays. Similar books: The Other Glass Teat by Harlan Ellison Against Everything by Mark Greif Facing Unpleasant Facts by George Orwell The Writer and the World by V. S. Naipaul Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker The Rub of Time by Martin Amis The Way the World Works by Nicholson Baker Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio In Favor of the Sensitive Man by Anais Nin On Looking by Lia Purpura At the Same Time by Susan Sontag When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell Vintage Didion by Joan Didion Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen The Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell Just Enough Liebling by A. J. Liebling The Adding Machine by William S. Burroughs