A biography—thoughtful and playful—of the man who founded New Directions and transformed American publishingJames Laughlin—a poet, publisher, world-class skier—was the man behind some of the most dari
In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de scandale in Paris: “…Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a new li
