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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Will Blythe |
| ISBN: | 0316102296 9780316102292 |
| OCLC Number: | 957495893 |
| Notes: | Twenty-five original essays on writing. |
| Description: | xxv, 226 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction / Will Blythe. -- At the point of my pen / Norman Mailer. -- Uncanny the singing that comes from certain husks / Joy Williams. -- Where does writing come from? / Richard Ford. -- A am a ... Genius! / Thom Jones. -- Some for glory, some for praise / James Salter. -- That's what dogs do / Amy Hempel. -- Stories / Pat Conroy. -- Writing and a life lived well: notes on Allan Gurganus / Ann Patchett. -- Easing my heart inside / Terry McMillan. -- Why the daily writing of fiction matters / Rich Bass. -- Phobia and composition / Rick Moody & Margaret F.M. Davis. -- Secret agent / Denis Johnson. -- The lousy rider / Elizabeth Gilbert. -- Writing / William Vollmann. -- For the money / Mark Jacobson. -- Why I write / Stephen Wright. -- Everything else falls away / Lee Smith. -- The nature of the fun / David Foster Wallace. -- Why I write, or not / Jim Harrison. -- The wolf in the tail grass / Mary Gaitskill. -- Rent retards the revolution! / Darius James. -- The war we can't win, we can't lose, we can't quit / Barry Hannah. -- Collecting myself / Tom Chiarella. -- Why she writes / Jayne Anne Phillips. -- In silence / Robert Stone. -- Who is that man tied to the mast? / Mark Richard. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Will Blythe. |
Abstract:
What makes the great American fiction writers tick? Like so many of us, editor Will Blythe was intrigued by the question. His curiosity led him to ask twenty-six of the most exciting and accomplished novelists of our time why they do what they do. To pursue a vocation like fiction writing these days demands an almost religious sense of mission, with little chance of making a living, let alone a fortune; (And yet it sometimes seems there are more fiction writers than readers!) This anthology offers a privileged, behind-the-scenes look at the imaginative processes of some of America's best writers.
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