Trumpet Rhapsodies: Collected Nonfiction 1954–1981
Donald Newlove
October 29, 2024
ISBN 9798218509798 Paperback / 256 pages / $18.99

Newlove's previously unpublished collection of 15 articles written in the Sixties and Seventies for such publications as Esquire, Evergreen Review, The Village Voice, and New York Magazine, which he described as "a kind of autobiography of my early days as a writer and of my search for a language that trumpeted my youth."

"That he's one of the best American writers is now unmistakable."
— Newsweek

Contents:
Taps
Prothalmion for Wet Harminoca and Johnny Stompanato
The GLP Arrives!
Dinner With the Lowells
Trumpet
The Black Eye
Princes of the Switchblade: Trembling on the Street
Getting Unpickled
Two Lines a Day
I've Got a Right to Fish the Blues
Those Havana-Chinatown Blues
Review of Dog Soldiers
A Fantastic Journey Into the Psychic Frontier
The Beast in the Strand Book Store
Rhapsody for Drunkspeare