{"product_id":"conversations-with-neil-simon-9781496822901","title":"Conversations with Neil Simon","description":"Neil Simon (1927-2018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the day--including Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, and Jerry Lewis--and he wrote for fabled television programs alongside a group of writers that included Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, Michael Stewart, and Sid Caesar. After television, Simon embarked on a playwriting career. In the next four decades he saw twenty-eight of his plays and five musicals produced on Broadway. Thirteen of those plays and three of the musicals ran for more than five hundred performances. He was even more widely known for his screenplays--some twenty-five in all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yet, despite this success, it was not until his BB Trilogy--\u003ci\u003eBrighton Beach Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBiloxi Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBroadway Bound\u003c\/i\u003e--that critics and scholars began to take Simon seriously as a literary figure. This change in perspective culminated in 1991 when his play \u003ci\u003eLost in Yonkers \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the twenty-two interviews included in \u003ci\u003eConversations with Neil Simon\u003c\/i\u003e, Simon talks candidly about what it was like to write commercially successful plays that were dismissed by critics and scholars. He also speaks at length about the differences between writing for television, for the stage, and for film. He speaks openly and often revealingly about his relationships with, among many others, Mike Nichols, Walter Matthau, Sid Caesar, and Jack Lemmon. Above all, these interviews reveal Neil Simon as a writer who thought long and intelligently about creating for stage, film, and television, and about dealing with serious subjects in a comic mode. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eConversations with Neil Simon\u003c\/i\u003e compels us to recognize Neil Simon's genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4516602\"\u003eJackson R. Bryer\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496822901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496822900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT013000\"\u003eDrama\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004020\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJackson R. Bryer \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Lillian Hellman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConversations with Thornton Wilder \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor (with Mary C. Hartig) of \u003ci\u003eConversations with August Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eall published by University Press of Mississippi. \u003cb\u003eBen Siegel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(1925-2010) was professor of English at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. He is coauthor (with Joseph Gaer) of \u003ci\u003eThe Puritan Heritage: America's Roots in the Bible \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor (with Gloria L. Cronin) of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Robert Penn Warren \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eConversations with Saul Bellow\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45793355268271,"sku":"9781496822901","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9255\/8767\/files\/img_e18fbf42-132f-4d3a-b48a-a9376710662d.jpg?v=1758821462","url":"https:\/\/www.correctionsbookstore.com\/products\/conversations-with-neil-simon-9781496822901","provider":"Corrections Bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}