The very telling : conversations with American writers /

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Imprint:Hanover : University Press of New England, c2006.
Description:xii, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6164917
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Other authors / contributors:Johnson, Sarah Anne.
ISBN:1584655275 (cloth : alk. paper)
1584655941 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781584655275
9781584655947
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206).
Table of Contents:
  • A bottomless fascination with the process itself / Michael Cunningham
  • You have to live your characters' lives with them / Edwidge Danticat
  • I've worked very alone and very privately / Mary Gaitskill
  • Moving through the language on the page / Myla Goldberg
  • Making the sentences fresh / Ha Jin
  • There is an unassailable victory in the very telling of a story / Bret Anthony Johnston
  • The image you woke up with / Edward P. Jones
  • Writing certain experiences into the language / le thi diem thuy
  • The drama of consciousness / Chang-rae Lee
  • Discovering the story word by word / Jonathan Lethem
  • My poems began to get more like stories / Alice Mattison
  • When you see a rule, break it / Rick Moody
  • I try to write rhythmically / Nancy Rawles
  • An intensifier of experience / Marilynne Robinson
  • Character is the very lifeblood of fiction / Donna Tartt
  • Snatching at random bits of light / Mary Yukari Waters.