The Uptown Local: a memoir of Joy, Death, and Joan Didion
Autor Cory Leadbeateren Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2025
'A persuasive case for the argument that writers should write about writers' FINANCIAL TIMES
Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory Leadbeater sought refuge from the rougher parts of life in the pages of books. Then, as an aspiring writer in his early twenties, he found himself the personal assistant to a titan of literature: Joan Didion.
In the nine years that followed, Cory shared Joan's rarefied world, transformed by both her blazing intellect and generous friendship. Inwardly, Cory was spiralling: he reeled from the death of a close friend; he spent his weekends at prison, visiting his father. Life with Joan was an escape. Together they recited poetry in the mornings, dined with Supreme Court justices, attended art openings, smoked a single cigarette each before bed.
The Uptown Local explores the fault lines of class, family, loss and creativity. It is a moving testament to the relationships that sustain us in the eternal pursuit of a life worth living - and a love letter to a cultural icon.
'Poignant and intimate . . . a beautiful, heartrending book' CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ
'A beautifully written and deeply moving memoir' DANA SPIOTTA
'At once tender and brutal, surreal and direct, cerebral and visceral . . . A spectacular debut' LILLY DANCYGER
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349127170
ISBN-10: 0349127174
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Fleet
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349127174
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Fleet
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
The Uptown Local renders the dizzying, sometimes painful experience of becoming yourself in prose that perfectly mirrors the story at its heart: at once tender and brutal, surreal and direct, cerebral and visceral. Here, the contradictions of a bifurcated life are not smoothed over, but pulled apart and examined with curiosity, rigor, and love. A spectacular debut
Something beautiful and lasting has been made: The Uptown Local. Cory Leadbeater's debut memoir on an aspiring writer's dream employment is a brilliant achievement: a consummately loving portrait of a great writer and a deeply flawed father and son. Leadbeater makes exquisite examination of depressions, terrors, and Death, yet the Joy part is wonderful and true
Cory Leadbeater writes with beauty, precision and velocity and The Uptown Local is a memoir like no other. It's the story of his relationship with a great American writer, but it's also the saga of his family's dark struggle with 21st century American realities, not to mention his own terrifying years of grief, addiction, and depression. Leadbeater exposes all of his demons with wit and poetic intensity
A piercing, erudite, deeply felt exploration of life and art, desire and loss, of choosing to seek out and make what's beautiful against all odds, Cory Leadbeater's The Uptown Local grabbed me by the throat and held me up close to all life's layers: love, hate, birth, and death. I felt grateful, moved, richer because of its unrelenting clarity and force
More than a tender ode to Joan Didion, Cory Leadbeater honors her memory by taking seriously an imperative central in her work: we must face hard truths to know ourselves. The Uptown Local is a beautiful catalogue of twin yearnings: to be seen and to disappear; to belong everywhere and nowhere; to go forth and to return home, and - above all else - to love and to be loved
It has been a long time since I've read a memoir this poignant and intimate. As much a remembrance of Joan Didion as it is an inquiry into how we create - relationships, art, and finally one's self - The Uptown Local is a beautiful, heartrending book
The Uptown Local is a beautifully written and deeply moving memoir about how identity is reimagined through art, and how one writer came to understand himself amid the painful constraints of class and trauma. It is also about an intimate, tender, and unlikely friendship. And finally, it is a kind of love letter to the complexities of New York City, the miraculous place where everything seems possible
'A persuasive case for the argument that writers should write about writers' Financial Times
Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory Leadbeater sought refuge from the rougher parts of life in the pages of books. Then, as an aspiring writer in his early twenties, he found himself the personal assistant to a titan of literature: Joan Didion.
In the nine years that followed, Cory shared Joan's rarefied world, transformed by both her blazing intellect and generous friendship. Inwardly, Cory was spiralling: he reeled from the death of a close friend; he spent his weekends at prison, visiting his father. Life with Joan was an escape. Together they recited poetry in the mornings, dined with Supreme Court justices, attended art openings, smoked a single cigarette each before bed.
The Uptown Local explores the fault lines of class, family, loss and creativity. It is a moving testament to the relationships that sustain us in the eternal pursuit of a life worth living - and a love letter to a cultural icon.
'Leadbeater makes us see there was so much more to Joan Didion (to all of us) than just one thing' Guardian
'Beautifully written and deeply moving' Dana Spiotta
Something beautiful and lasting has been made: The Uptown Local. Cory Leadbeater's debut memoir on an aspiring writer's dream employment is a brilliant achievement: a consummately loving portrait of a great writer and a deeply flawed father and son. Leadbeater makes exquisite examination of depressions, terrors, and Death, yet the Joy part is wonderful and true
Cory Leadbeater writes with beauty, precision and velocity and The Uptown Local is a memoir like no other. It's the story of his relationship with a great American writer, but it's also the saga of his family's dark struggle with 21st century American realities, not to mention his own terrifying years of grief, addiction, and depression. Leadbeater exposes all of his demons with wit and poetic intensity
A piercing, erudite, deeply felt exploration of life and art, desire and loss, of choosing to seek out and make what's beautiful against all odds, Cory Leadbeater's The Uptown Local grabbed me by the throat and held me up close to all life's layers: love, hate, birth, and death. I felt grateful, moved, richer because of its unrelenting clarity and force
More than a tender ode to Joan Didion, Cory Leadbeater honors her memory by taking seriously an imperative central in her work: we must face hard truths to know ourselves. The Uptown Local is a beautiful catalogue of twin yearnings: to be seen and to disappear; to belong everywhere and nowhere; to go forth and to return home, and - above all else - to love and to be loved
It has been a long time since I've read a memoir this poignant and intimate. As much a remembrance of Joan Didion as it is an inquiry into how we create - relationships, art, and finally one's self - The Uptown Local is a beautiful, heartrending book
The Uptown Local is a beautifully written and deeply moving memoir about how identity is reimagined through art, and how one writer came to understand himself amid the painful constraints of class and trauma. It is also about an intimate, tender, and unlikely friendship. And finally, it is a kind of love letter to the complexities of New York City, the miraculous place where everything seems possible
'A persuasive case for the argument that writers should write about writers' Financial Times
Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory Leadbeater sought refuge from the rougher parts of life in the pages of books. Then, as an aspiring writer in his early twenties, he found himself the personal assistant to a titan of literature: Joan Didion.
In the nine years that followed, Cory shared Joan's rarefied world, transformed by both her blazing intellect and generous friendship. Inwardly, Cory was spiralling: he reeled from the death of a close friend; he spent his weekends at prison, visiting his father. Life with Joan was an escape. Together they recited poetry in the mornings, dined with Supreme Court justices, attended art openings, smoked a single cigarette each before bed.
The Uptown Local explores the fault lines of class, family, loss and creativity. It is a moving testament to the relationships that sustain us in the eternal pursuit of a life worth living - and a love letter to a cultural icon.
'Leadbeater makes us see there was so much more to Joan Didion (to all of us) than just one thing' Guardian
'Beautifully written and deeply moving' Dana Spiotta
Notă biografică
Cory Leadbeater received his MFA in fiction from Columbia in 2014, where he was the recipient of the Jacob P. Waletzky Fellowship. Before that, he attended Trinity College, where he was the recipient of the Fred Pfeil Memorial Prize in Creative Writing, the John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prize in Poetry, and the Ruel Crompton Tuttle Prize in Scholarship. He lives in New Jersey with his family.