Tony Tanner's "City of Words" (1971)
New York City: Harper & Row (book, essays), 1971. 8.5" x 6" x 1.5", 463 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. City of Words: American Fiction 1950–1970 by Tony Tanner, a collection of his literary essays as published in hardcover by Harper & Row (New York City) in 1971. Jacket design by Craig Dodd. This contains Tanner's essay on William S. Burroughs "Rub Out the Word", at pages 109-140. Not in Maynard & Miles. Not in Shoaf. Not in Schottlaender. Contents: Prefatory Note Introduction 1. "On Lexical Playfields (Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges)" 2. "The Music of Invisibility (Ralph Ellison)" 3. "A Mode of Motion (Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller)" 4. "Frames without Pictures (James Purdy)" 5. "Rub Out the Word (William S. Burroughs)" 6. "Everything Running Down" 7. "Caries and Cabals (Thomas Pynchon)" 8. "The Uncertain Messenger (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) 9. "Necessary Landsc...
