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Just Go Down to the Road brings an exciting time in world and literary history to life. It's a remarkable travel account that began with the simple suggestion: 'Just go down to the road, Jim. You'll get a lift .'"
―Foreword Reviews PRAISE FOR JAMES CAMPBELL'S OTHER BOOKS:
"A life-sized portrait in very broad strokes . . . A lively book that is immensely readable, serious, careful, and informed."―
Boston Globe on
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin "A marvelously illuminating literary biography . . . [and] an affectionate yet critical portrait."―
Publishers Weekly on
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin "[A] brilliantly sympathetic and compelling analysis of the Beat phenomenon."―
The Guardian on
This Is the Beat Generation "Campbell is simply one of the rare critics on whom, to cite Henry James, 'nothing is lost.'"―
Marjorie Perloff on
Syncopations "A witty and insightful look at a fascinating, romantic land by a native son."―
Library Journal on
Invisible Country