Literary Writing in the 21st Century Conversations / Anis Shivani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shivani, Anis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature publishing.

Contemporary, The, in literature.

Authors and publishers.

American literature.

Authors and publishers--United States--History--21st century.

Literature publishing--United States--History--21st century.

American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2017]

Summary:

In Literary Writing in the 21st Century an incredible array of today's leading fiction writers, poets, critics, editors, publishers, and booksellers engage in no-holds-barred dialogue about the challenging issues facing writing and publishing today. Whether it's the impact of innovative technologies, proliferation of new modes of teaching and learning, changing economic dynamics for publishers, shifting criteria to judge quality writing in a global context, or redefinitions of authorship amidst larger cultural changes, this book provides a cornucopia of strongly articulated opinions. It also serves as a manual for students enrolled in formal programs of creative writing, as well as those pursuing writing independently. Deploying his signature wit and unconventional insights, these wide-ranging cultural conversations are mediated by one of our most thought-provoking literary critics and are sure to prompt spirited dialogue both inside and outside the classroom.

Contents:

Symposium: what is good or bad about southern writing today?

How can indie bookstores succeed in the new economy? San Antonio's Twig Book Shop as a case study

A fabled indie press reaches maturity: what can we learn from the experience of Coffee House Press?

How does a successful university press work? Behind the scenes with Princeton University Press director Peter Dougherty

Symposium: have online literary journals come of age?

How can poetry become eclectic, global, and diverse? Interview with New York Quarterly editor Raymond Hammond

The three best books of 2013

Symposium: what goes into the making of an outstanding book cover?

A manifesto against authors writing for free.

Orhan Pamuk's original contribution to the theory of the novel: the naive and the sentimental novelist

Symposium response: how do religious or spiritual beliefs affect my writing?

What is the appeal of detective fiction? Dashiell Hammett's The continental op as a test case

Symposium: who is the most important contemporary poet?

Creative writing finally gets the satire it deserves: interview with John McNally

Thoughts for AWP week: the glut in creative writing is the reverse side of the drought in the humanities

The writer as confidence man: the heart versus the mind in James Magnuson's wily novel of creative writing

New rules for writers

Symposium: how are America's little magazines coping with technological and economic change?

How to put together a successful poetry anthology: Ryan G. van Cleave on the challenges of summing up contemporary Chicago

What must indie presses do today to survive and thrive? Wings Press of San Antonio shows the way

Paul Ruffin on the role of Texas Review Press in the southern literary scene.

The ten best books of the last decade

Symposium: how can reviewing be made relevant for the new generation?

Favorite poems

Symposium: what is the present state of American poetry?

Have feminist poets kept up with the legacy of Sylvia Plath? A reassessment fifty years later

White House poetry reading leaked! Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander, and the secret rejection letter

Symposium: short stories vs. novels-which is the more rewarding form and why?

Is there a short story renaissance in America? Interview with Harper Perennial editor Calvert Morgan

The last good 9/11 novel: interview with Teddy Wayne

Should writing try to humanize particular groups of people?

Symposium: what is distinctive about Arab-American writing today?

Cormac McCarthy's The road: doing apocalypse the Southern way

Why Salman Rushdie so richly deserves the Nobel Prize in literature

Symposium response: is American literature too insular?

Symposium: who is the most important contemporary fiction writer?

We are all neoliberals now: the new genre of plastic realism in contemporary American fiction

The Pakistani novel of class comes of age: Mohsin Hamid's How to get filthy rich in rising Asia

The millennial generation's literary escapism toward the end of empire: Dave Eggers's A hologram for the king.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68003-130-9

OCLC:

973733613