Trumpet Rhapsodies: Collected Nonfiction 1954-1981

In 2014, author Donald Newlove (1928-2021) put together a collection of articles he had written between 1954 and 1981 that had previously appeared in such publications as Esquire, Evergreen Review, The Village Voice, and New York Magazine. He titled this compilation Trumpet Rhapsodies, describing it as "a kind of autobiography of my early days as a writer and of my search for a language that trumpeted my youth."

The subject matter of these 15 pieces is wide-ranging. Among the topics, Newlov...