Because you have to : a writing life / Joan Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Joan, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Frank, Joan, 1949-.

Frank, Joan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Frank reveals what life as a writer and member of the intellectual world has taught her through original essays.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Madness in Method

Getting It Down

Writing from the Body

Striving

Spit and Band-Aids

The Stillness of Sleeping Birds

Be Careful Whom You Tell

Never Enough

When It Is Good

Psychic Inroads, Scenic Routes, Culs-de-Sac

Writers' Networks, Writers' Lives

For My Brothers and Sisters in the Rejection Business

The Impenetrable Phenomenon

The Vastness of Geologic Time

The More We Typed, the Better We Felt

Revisiting Envy

Gumby, Frankenstein, Jakob, Rosamund

A Booth in the Marketplace

Striking a Bargain

Reading

Dinosaurs

Underwhelmed and Eccentric

A Hand in the Game

Enough with the Change and Growth

Imposed Yet Familiar

If You Really Want to Hear About It

In Search of Heated Agreement

Making Art

Love of Three Oranges

Sources.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780268079840

0268079846

9780268079765

0268079765

OCLC:

811390536