Art and Craft Thirty Years on the Literary Beat / Bill Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Bill.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Reviews.

Books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Other Title:

Art and craft

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Art and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson's three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina's Post and Courier. Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist Josephine Humphreys, this collection is a compendium of interviews featuring some of the most distinguished novelists and nonfiction writers in America and abroad, including Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Bragg, and Anthony Bourdain, as well as many South Carolinians. With ten thematic chapters ranging from the Southern Renaissance, literature, biography, and travel writing to crime fiction and Civil War history, Art and Craft also includes a sampling of Thompson's reviews. Featuring: Jack Bass, Rick Bragg, Roy Blount, Jr., Robin Cook, Pat Conroy, Patricia Cornwell, Dorothea Benton Frank, Herb Frazier, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen, Sue Monk Kidd, Brian Lamb, Bret Lott, Jill McCorkle, James McPherson, Mary Alice Monroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Carl Reiner, Dori Sanders, Charles Seabrook, Anne Rivers Siddons, Lee Smith, Mickey Spillane, Paul Theroux, Tom Wolfe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Leading Lights, or the Test of Renown

Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full

Norman Mailer's Oswald's Tale

Diane Ackerman's An Alchemy of Mind

Edward Albee's The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?

Michael Cunningham's The Hours

Pat Conroy's Beach Mus

Charles Baxter's Shadow Play

Joyce Carol Oates's We Are the Mulvaneys

Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List

Gary Smith's Beyond the Game

Jill McCorkle's Final Vinyl Days

Tim O'Brien's Tomcat in Love

Biography, Real and Imagined

David Quammen's The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

Jack Bass's Ol' Strom

Linda Lear's Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

Rick Bragg's The Prince of Frogtown

James I. Robertson's Stonewall Jackson

Lisa Rogak's Haunted Heart

Donald Spoto's High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly

Dick Côté's Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison

The Traveler's Muse

Paul Theroux's The Tao of Travel

Gregory Jaynes's Come Hell on High Water

R. W. Apple's Apple's America

Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor's Traveling with Pomegranates

Robert Olen Butler's Had a Good Time

Jack Hitt's Off the Road

Roy Blount Jr.'s Not Exactly What I Had in Mind

The Late Unpleasantness, in Fact and Fiction

Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family

Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic

Winston Groom's Shrouds of Glory

Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative

Howard Bahr's The Year of Jubilo

James M. McPherson's Writing the Civil War

William C. Davis's Look Away!

Lee Smith's On Agate Hill

Robert Rosen's Jewish Confederates

Douglas Bostick's Charleston Under Siege

The Southern Renaissance.

James M. Hutchisson's DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentlemana nd the World of Porgy and Bess

Susan Millar Williams's A Devil and a Good Woman, Too

Martha Severens's The Charleston Renaissance

Barbara Bellows's A Talent for Living

Louise Allen's A Bluestocking in Charleston

Crime and Punishment

Carl Hiaasen's Stormy Weather

John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Patricia Cornwell's Unnatural Exposure

Sue Grafton's P Is for Peril

Mickey Spillane's Perfect Life and The Ship That Never Was

James Ellroy's Destination: Morgue!

Joe Queenan's Queenan Country

Pressing Issues

Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise

Robin Cook's Critical

Mary Alice Monroe's Sweetgrass

Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall

Roger Pinckney's Signs and Wonders

David Cox's Dirty Secrets, Dirty War

Fritz Hollings's Making Government Work

Harriet McBryde Johnson's Too Late to Die Young

Will Moredock's Banana Republic: A Year in the Heart of Myrtle Beach

Herb Frazier's Behind God's Back

Watering the Wasteland

Dick Cavett's Talk Show

David Steinberg's The Book of David

Carl Reiner's Just Desserts

Larry Doyle's I Love You, Beth Cooper

Bill Geist's Way off the Road

Brian Lamb's "Booknotes"

Palmetto's Progress (The Locals)

Bret Lott's How to Get Home

William Baldwin's A Gentleman of Charleston and the Manner of His Death

Josephine Humphreys's Nowhere Else on Earth

Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight

Charles Seabrook's Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses

Sidney Rittenberg's The Man Who Stayed Behind

Anne LeClercq's Between North and South

Dori Sanders's Her Own Place

Anne Rivers Siddons's Sweetwater Creek

Padgett Powell's Edisto Revisited

Elise Blackwell's Grub

Harlan Greene's The German Officer's Boy.

Ben Moïse's Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden

Dorothea Benton Frank's Porch Lights

The Reviews

The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen

Sex and Destiny by Germaine Greer

Orson Welles: A Biography by Barbara Leaming

Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain

Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance

J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey

Less Than Glory by Norman Gelb

American Beat by Bob Greene

Sean Connery by Andrew Yule

An Urchin in the Storm by Stephen Jay Gould

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson

Adventures in Porkland by Brian Kelly

Fishing in the Tiber by Lance Morrow

A Literary Feast Edited by Lilly Golden.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611174427

1611174422

9781611174434

1611174430

OCLC:

899264435