num_pages: 296
description: None of these 116 essays were originally intended for publication; in fact, almost all of them originated as tape recordings made by Donald L. Weismann simply for the pleasures inherent in their making. Now, having been encouraged by the real but small audience that had been affected by the tapes, Weismann decided to transcribe them, and that's what you have here in this book -- transcriptions form the spoken word to print on these pages. And if in the lot of them, taken as a whole, you detect the threads of an autobiography, you would almost certainly be correct -- even though Weismann would consider that an unintended possiblity. However, of one thing you can be No matter the wide variety of subjects and the shifting attitudes toward them, among this "stuff of stories" there is but a single undeniable voice speaking out in fun or dead seriousness from these printed pages -- "a voice," as William Arrowsmith put it years ago, "almost as the man himself talks, which is unlikely the speech of any man I know, livelier, and more graphic."
language: English
title: The Stuff of Stories : Clues to a Lot of Unwritten Books
titlecomplete: The Stuff of Stories : Clues to a Lot of Unwritten Books
publisher: Dorrance Pub Co