Literary luxuries : American writing at the end of the millennium / Joe David Bellamy. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellamy, Joe David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bellamy, Joe David--Authorship.

Bellamy, Joe David.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 230 p. )

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the Iowa Writers Workshop to the halls of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts, from the world of literary magazines and writers' conferences to the bizarre realm of the late-twentieth-century American English department, Literary Luxuries takes the reader on a guided tour of American literary life in our time - and the forces threatening its existence. Joe David Bellamy has been a significant figure on the literary scene during the last three decades; as a "literary Everyman," he offers in Literary Luxuries a distinctive and valuable perspective on the culture wars, on education and the imagination, on particular writers and major literary and aesthetic movements, on the role of government in fostering cultural development, and on the day-to-day strife of the writer's life in the United States.

Contents:

Literary luxuries: Literary luxuries : of pens and swords

Literary occasions: The magazine wars

The bread loaf experience

A star in the wilderness : six years at Saranac Lake

Literary meteorology: Superfiction : fiction in an age of excess

Lifestyle fiction : a downpour of literary republicanism

Muscular fiction : a postscript

Literary education: The theory of creative writing I : keeping the frog alive

The theory of creative writing II : the uses of the imagination and the revenge of the pink typewriter

The Iowa mystique and those who loathe it

Finding one's true voice

Literary satirists: T. Coraghessan Boyle and the renaissance of the short story

Tom Wolfe as visiting martian

Kurt Vonnegut for president : the making of a literary reputation

Literary vices: The autobiographical trap

Still arguing about moral fiction

Five sex acts and wild thing : John Frohnmayer's last days at the NEA, and mine

Contemporaries: Max Apple, Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, John Casey, Don DeLillo, Frederick Exley, John Gardner, Beverly Lowry, Mailer/Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, George Plimpton, Ishmael Reed, Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield, Paul West.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6006-3