| 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 -- I 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 / Rick Bass -- Phobia and Composition / Rick Moody and 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 Tall Grass / Mary Gaitskill -- Rent Retards the Revolution! / Darius James |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Twenty-five original essays on writing |
| Subject |
Authorship.
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Fiction -- Authorship.
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| Author |
Blythe, Will.
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| LC no. |
98021419 |
| ISBN |
0316102296 |
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