"Literchoor Is My Beat"

A biography—thoughtful and playful—of the man who founded New Directions and transformed American publishing James Laughlin—poet, publisher, world-class skier—was the man behind some of the most daring, revolutionary works in verse and prose of the twentieth century. As the founder of New Directions, he published Ezra Pound's The Cantos and William Carlos Williams's Paterson ; he brought Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges to an American audience. Throughout his life, this tall, charismatic inte