Contemporary Writers
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Writing Across Worlds
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Author : Susheila Nasta
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Writing Across Worlds written by Susheila Nasta and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Authors categories.
From Chinua Achebe to Marina Warner, Writing Across Worlds brings together new interviews and interviews with major international writers previously featured in the pages of Wasafiri magazine, founded in 1984 and now celebrating its twentieth anniversary.
Popular Contemporary Writers
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Author : Michael D. Sharp
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date : 2005-10
Popular Contemporary Writers written by Michael D. Sharp and has been published by Marshall Cavendish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10 with American literature categories.
Ninety-six alphabetically arranged author profiles include biographical information, critical commentary, and illustrations.
More Than Words
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Author : Philip Yancey
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2002-09
More Than Words written by Philip Yancey and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
One of Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time For less expense than a lost bet on the links, you can learn how to get "out of the bunker and into the trees." Rex Lardner, a unique stylist who hit his best shots when in a towering rage, reveals the secrets every golfer needs to know, including how to loft a ball out of your own trouser cuff; how to properly grip the 2-wood when smashing it against a tree; and how to hit special "trick" shots-the fade, the slice, the yip-without a club if necessary. Out of the Bunker and into the Trees is essential reading for those looking to correct typical golfing faults. If you are an inconsistent putter, Lardner demonstrates how you never need to take more than six putts to hole out on any green. Too much reliance on advice from strangers? Lardner presents an object lesson with his traumatic experiences teaching pros. Originally published in 1960, Out of the Bunker and into the Trees is so funny that various chapters have been widely reprinted in sports magazines. Readers today continue to enjoy this delightful parody of golf and golfers by a humorist who claimed to have discovered the reason people play golf: "to destroy themselves."
Facing Texts
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Author : Heide Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-22
Facing Texts written by Heide Ziegler and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This selection of fiction by many of America's best writers, each coupled with a distinguished critic's response, is designed to defy the chronological secondariness of critical interpretation. During the creation of this book the majority of the contributions, chosen by the writers themselves, were as yet unpublished, providing an unmediated encounter between author and critic. Every reader extends what editors, authors, and critics have begun by adding to the imaginary space in which all texts may be woven together. This process serves as metaphor for the changing nature of any latter-day encounter with one's own literary tradition. The interfacing of texts not only illuminates the fiction, and the relationship of fiction to critics, but also informs our conceptions of text, criticism, and fiction itself.
You Ve Got To Read This
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Author : Ron Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date : 1994
You Ve Got To Read This written by Ron Hansen and has been published by Harper Perennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
"An exciting new anthology of short fiction chosen by thirty-five of this country's most distinguished and popular fiction writers, You've Got to Read This offers readers an unusually intimate glimpse into how accomplished writers experience literature." "Here are stories that inspired today's leading novelists and short-story writers to embark on their own writing careers, stories that took their breath away and changed them, or the way they responded to literature, forever. Oscar Hijuelos confesses his debt to the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, whose brilliant story "The Aleph" inspired him to become a writer himself. Mary Gordon stands in awe of what James Joyce wrought in "The Dead," and wonders how writers who come after him can equal it. Robert Coover writes movingly of Angela Carter and her mysterious story "Reflections," while Kenneth A. McClane says that "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin literally saved his life." "Some of the stories presented here are classics, like Anton Chekhov's "Gooseberries," introduced by Eudora Welty, or Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," selected by Sue Miller. Some are less well known, like Lars Gustafsson's "Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases," introduced by Charles Baxter, or John Updike's "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car," whose beauty stunned Lorrie Moore." "All were critically important to some of our finest contemporary writers - among them Annie Dillard, John Irving, Amy Tan, Louise Erdrich, Russell Banks, Jane Smiley, Bobbie Ann Mason, Tobias Wolff - and their comments about the selections offer fascinating entrances into the stories. For lovers of fiction, You've Got to Read This is a treasure trove, a dazzling collection of stories passionately and imaginatively chosen."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Writers And Their Work
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Author : Geoff Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Facts on File
Release Date : 2010
Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Writers And Their Work written by Geoff Hamilton and has been published by Facts on File this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with American fiction categories.
A guide to the work of English-language fiction writers born since 1960.
Writing On The Edge
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Author : Dan Crowe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Writing On The Edge written by Dan Crowe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Collections categories.
Powerful essays by such luminaries and literary giants as Daniel Day-Lewis and Martin Amis offer a compassionate look at the crises that most affect our world today. An important book for anyone interested in global issues, Writing on the Edge features twelve essays that take the reader to countries in crisis. Award-winning writer Martin Amis experienced firsthand the problems of gang violence in Colombia, South America; New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevalier focuses on the abuse of women in Burundi, East Africa; Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis writes of meeting children raised in war-torn Palestine; Booker Prize-winning author DBC Pierre addresses the unusually high incidence of mental health issues in Armenia. Award-winning photographer Tom Craig was commissioned by the humanitarian charity Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders to document the writers in these places in trouble. His striking photographs amplify the sense of compassion required while also demonstrating that beautiful humanity is the victim of tragedy.
The Inevitable Contemporary Writers Confront Death
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Author : Bradford Morrow
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-02-21
The Inevitable Contemporary Writers Confront Death written by Bradford Morrow and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-21 with Literary Collections categories.
What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers. Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art-porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality. Other contributors include Annie Dillard, Diane Ackerman, Peter Straub, and Brenda Hillman.
Do You Consider Yourself A Postmodern Author
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Author : Rudolf Freiburg
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 1999
Do You Consider Yourself A Postmodern Author written by Rudolf Freiburg and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book presents a collection of twelve interviews with eminent English contemporary writers held during a period of four years. The book allows an illuminating insight into a very lively and thought-provoking literary culture, stirred not only by recent ideas of postmodernism but also by the manifold issues of nationality, culture, and gender subjected to permanent redefinitions towards the end of the twentieth century. The interviews with Peter Ackroyd, John Banville, Julian Barnes, Alain de Botton, Maureen Duffy, Tibor Fischer, John Fowles, Romesh Gunesekera, Tim Parks, Terry Pratchett, Jane Rogers, and Adam Thorpe cover topics such as the relationship between writer and public, the role of the literary tradition, the relevance of contemporary literary theory for the production of literature, images of nationality, intertextuality, changes in the attitude towards language and meaning, and the reception of literary texts by critical reviewers and literary critics.
Telling Stories Talking Craft
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Author : Christopher Feliciano Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Release Date : 2010-06-13
Telling Stories Talking Craft written by Christopher Feliciano Arnold and has been published by Parlor Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Telling Stories, Talking Craft is a collection of fifteen conversations with some of the finest contemporary fiction writers. These distinguished authors discuss their lives and their craft in candid, thought-provoking interviews from the pages of Sycamore Review, Purdue University’s international journal of literature, opinion and the arts.