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Conversations with American women writers / Sarah Anne Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women authors, American--Interviews.
- Women authors, American.
- Women and literature.
- Authors, American.
- United States.
- Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.
- Authors, American--21st century--Interviews.
- Women and literature--United States.
- Authorship.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England, [2004]
- Summary:
- Interviews on the craft of writing and the writing life with some of the foremost contemporary American women fiction writers.
- Contents:
- Andrea Barrett: the hidden map of the story
- Aimee Bender: somewhere along the line, I ate fairy tales
- Amy Bloom: writing and therapy have nothing in common
- Elizabeth Cox: putting the pain in straight
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: writers are great eavesdroppers
- Maria Flook: I'll see it when I believe it
- Lynn Freed: colonizing the territory of the fiction
- Gish Jen: writing off into the darkness
- Nora Okja Keller: trying to inhabit a soul
- Jill McCorkle: always looking for the bite
- Elizabeth McCracken: you must be prepared to break your own heart
- Sue Miller: the hot dramas of the domestic scene
- Sena Jeter Naslund: to be human is to be artistically creative
- Ann Patchett: constantly plagiarizing myself
- Jayne Anne Phillips: taking cues from the work itself
- A.J. Verdelle: managing the whole fictive world
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka: the characters know the sound of their own voice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-229).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1584653000
- 1584653485
- OCLC:
- 53076091
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