Late work : a literary autobiography of love, loss, and what I was reading / Joan Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Joan, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frank, Joan, 1949-.

Frank, Joan.

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

Authors, American.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 121 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Literary autobiography of love, loss, and what I was reading

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2022.

Summary:

"One of our most effusive authors, Southwest born (Phoenix, Arizona) Joan Frank's newest collection of essays explore her long career writing, reading, and publishing. Late Work focuses on reflecting on a long writing life and the realities of writing as an older author who knows she has more time behind her than she has ahead. The result is a collection of fifteen essays that explore the issues endemic to literary writers. While she approaches these issues from the perspective of someone who's been at the business for a long time, beginning and middle-stage writers will find a lot of advice in these essays as she reflects on lessons she's learned over the years and tackles questions she now faces as an older writer, such as: What constitutes real risk for a Late Work writer--what may be left to truly fear? How might a seasoned writer cope with incipient doubt? What's the through-line for a late-career writer in her darkest hour? How might she come to terms with the "sum of [her oeuvre's] promise and fact?" The essays are poignant, funny, complex, and knowledgeable throughout. Frank is a consummate professional and promoter of her work and the press. This book will be an excellent addition to our creative/literary nonfiction list as well as our writing list"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: What Would John Williams Do?

The Late Work Bylaws

Lifeness Itself: Divining the Details

I Say It's Spinach

Another Art

Your Baby's Ugly

The Lonely Voice in Its Bathrobe: A Life of Letters

You've Made It

Make It Go Away

Naked Emperors

Ready or Not

What Are We Afraid Of?

It Seemed Important at the Time: The New Doubt

The Action Figures Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Frank, Joan, 1949- Late work.

ISBN:

9780826364203

0826364209

OCLC:

1311169865