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Author : Gordon Lish
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Secret Life of Our Times: New Fiction from Esquire written by Gordon Lish and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Lish
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Secret Life of Our Times: New Fiction from Esquire written by Gordon Lish and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Polsgrove
Publisher : RDR Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571430915
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun? written by Carol Polsgrove and published by RDR Books. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly the best book ever written about an American magazine editor, this biography offers a 3-D view of the assassinations, the student riots, the counterculture, the politicians, the pop icons and the war that made the 60s America's unforgettable decade. Under the aegis of former Marine Harold Hayes, Esquire helped turn journalists, editors and photographers like Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Raymond Carver, Michael Herr, John Berendt and Diane Arbus into celebrities in their own right. Polsgrove's brilliant book, often resembling an Esquire cover story, offers a warts and all portrait of Hayes. Afterword by Ben Bagdikian.
Author : Carol Sklenicka
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439160589
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Raymond Carver written by Carol Sklenicka and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of america’s best-known short story writer of the late twentieth century. The London Times called Raymond Carver "the American Chekhov." The beloved, mischievous, but more modest short-story writer and poet thought of himself as "a lucky man" whose renunciation of alcohol allowed him to live "ten years longer than I or anyone expected." In that last decade, Carver became the leading figure in a resurgence of the short story. Readers embraced his precise, sad, often funny and poignant tales of ordinary people and their troubles: poverty, drunkenness, embittered marriages, difficulties brought on by neglect rather than intent. Since Carver died in 1988 at age fifty, his legacy has been mythologized by admirers and tainted by controversy over a zealous editor’s shaping of his first two story collections. Carol Sklenicka penetrates the myths and controversies. Her decade-long search of archives across the United States and her extensive interviews with Carver’s relatives, friends, and colleagues have enabled her to write the definitive story of the iconic literary figure. Laced with the voices of people who knew Carver intimately, her biography offers a fresh appreciation of his work and an unbiased, vivid portrait of the writer.
Author : Fred Pfeil
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860919926
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Another Tale to Tell written by Fred Pfeil and published by Verso. This book was released on 1990-05-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his work as a fiction writer, critic and activist, Fred Pfeil has sought to extend the progressive possibilities within contemporary American culture. Idiosyncratic and provocative, Another Tale to Tell moves from evaluations of politically engaged texts and practices—such as Hans Haacke’s deconstructive artwork, Chester Himes’ Harlem police thrillers, ‘cyberpunk’ and the feminist science fiction of Octavia Butler—to considerations of the history, dynamics and potential of postmodern culture. Pfeil’s work on postmodernity is distinct from the spate of their works on the subject in its insistence on the social base of postmodern practices within today’s professional managerial class, and in his endeavour both to use and to criticize Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and poststructuralist thought in order to illuminate our present political impasses and openings. From his audacious reading of the film River’s Edge as the terminus of the vexed history of bourgeois narrative, and his analysis of Reaganite oedipality in Back to the Future, to his unsettling meditation on the ‘poststructuralist paradise’ embodied in contemporary SF, Pfeil sorts through a welter of contemporary cultural texts and practices for the glimmerings of a postmodern narrative and politics that may truly be ‘another tale to tell’.
Author : David Winters
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496816269
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Gordon Lish written by David Winters and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as "Captain Fiction," Gordon Lish (b. 1934) is among the most influential--and controversial--figures in modern American letters. As an editor at Esquire (1969-1977), Alfred A. Knopf (1977-1994), and The Quarterly (1987-1995) and as a teacher both in and outside the university system, he has worked closely with many of the most pioneering writers of recent times, including Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Sam Lipsyte, and Ben Marcus. A prolific author of stories and novels, Lish has also won a cult following for his own fiction, earning comparisons with Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett. Conversations with Gordon Lish collects all of Lish's major interviews, covering the entire span of his extraordinary career. Ranging from 1965 to 2015, these interviews document his pivotal role in the period's defining developments: the impact of the Californian counterculture, the rise and decline of so-called literary "minimalism," dramatic transformations in book and magazine publishing, and the ongoing growth of creative writing instruction. Over time, Lish--a self-described "dynamic conversationalist"-- forges an evolving conversation not only with his interviewers, but with the central trends of twentieth-century literary history. This book will be essential reading not only for students and fans of contemporary fiction, but for writers too: included are several interviews in which Lish discusses his legendary writing classes. Indeed, these pieces themselves amount to a masterclass in Lishian literary language--each is a work of art in its own right.
Author : Jeffrey A. Sartain
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443804320
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Sacred and Immoral written by Jeffrey A. Sartain and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred and Immoral: On the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk, edited by Jeffrey A. Sartain, combines the efforts of an international list of writers to explore the depths of Chuck Palahniuk’s fiction. Scholars have paid attention Palahniuk’s premiere novel, Fight Club, for years. Sacred and Immoral is the first anthology dedicated to scholarship focused on Palahniuk’s work following Fight Club, which he has been producing at an average of a book a year for thirteen years. By collecting the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars under a single cover, Sacred and Immoral extends the reach of Palahniuk scholarship beyond any previous publication. Sacred and Immoral provides the single most comprehensive and useful scholarly resource to date for anyone wishing to examine Chuck Palahniuk’s fiction in an academic context. Some of the anthology’s chapters situate Palahniuk’s work within existing generic conventions, while other chapters are concerned with the theoretical underpinnings of Palahniuk’s writing and the philosophical implications of his work. With eleven new critical analyses of Palahniuk’s later novels, Sacred and Immoral drastically expands the range and depth of academic inquiry into Palahniuk’s fiction commensurate with the prominent and exciting position Palahniuk’s work occupies in contemporary culture. Sacred and Immoral also includes a new interview with Chuck Palahniuk, conducted by literary scholar Matt Kavanagh. Finally, Sacred and Immoral boasts the most complete primary and secondary bibliographies of Palahniuk-related materials to date. Sacred and Immoral is not an attempt to have the last word on Chuck Palahniuk’s literature. Rather, this volume is a springboard for other projects that relate to Palahniuk’s writings. The anthology provides a critical framework for Palahniuk’s later literature that students, teachers, and researchers can use in their own classrooms and writing.
Author : Stéphane Michaka
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385537514
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Scissors written by Stéphane Michaka and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the life of the great short-story writer Raymond Carver, particularly his last ten years, Scissors is a funny, compassionate, and convincing portrayal of the creative life: its compulsions, rewards, and frustrations, and its affinities with tragedy. Raymond is a writer whose life is fraught with personal and creative struggle. His first marriage, to Marianne, is intense, passionate, and unhealthy. After his divorce, he finds new love and support with Joanne, a poet. All the while, Raymond is in an escalating conflict with his editor, Douglas, who both enhances and distorts Raymond's work. As his success and confidence grow, Raymond strives harder and harder to ensure that his stories are published as written, with his past drinking and his previous life with Marianne always lurking in the background. Douglas thinks the stories are as much his as Raymond's and is determined that only his, heavily edited, versions will appear in print. While Raymond considers his stories the most important part of his life, Marianne and Joanne claim stakes in them as well, leading to a dramatic and unexpected final confrontation with the man known as “Scissors.” In this brilliantly inventive novel, Michaka crafts a searing tale about the struggles and sacrifices one must endure for both love and art.
Author : Mary Lucia Snyder Cornelius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sewanee Review, a Forty-year Index 1943-1982 written by Mary Lucia Snyder Cornelius and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : New York : Bowker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fiction, 1876-1983: Authors written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1983 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609807928
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Lynne Sharon Schwartz and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Joyce Carol Oates’s story “The Translation,” a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis’s “French Lesson I: Le Meurtre,” what begins as a lesson in beginner’s French takes a sinister turn. In the essay “On Translating and Being Translated,” Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator. Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays About Translation gathers together thirteen stories and five essays that explore the compromises, misunderstandings, traumas, and reconciliations we act out and embody through the art of translation. Guiding her selection is Schwartz’s marvelous eye for finding hidden gems, bringing together Levi, Davis, and Oates with the likes of Michael Scammell, Harry Mathews, Chana Bloch, and so many other fine and intriguing voices.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New American Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1760 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Humanities Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : New York : Bowker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fiction, 1876-1983: Titles written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1983 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of the Communications Library written by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Library and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
