Conversations with American women writers
By: Sarah Anne Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, Sarah Anne.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Women authors, American -- Interviews; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews; Authors, American -- 21st century -- Interviews; Women and literature -- United States; Authorship
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Seventeen American women writers discuss the fine details of their craft, in a collection of interviews.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-229).
Table of contents: title: Andrea Barrett: the hidden map of the story; title: Aimee Bender: somewhere along the line, I ate fairy tales; title: Amy Bloom: writing and therapy have nothing in common; title: Elizabeth Cox: putting the pain in straight; title: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: writers are great eavesdroppers; title: Maria Flook: I'll see it when I believe it; title: Lynn Freed: colonizing the territory of the fiction; title: Gish Jen: writing off into the darkness; title: Nora Okja Keller: trying to inhabit a soul; title: Jill McCorkle: always looking for the bite; title: Elizabeth McCracken: you must be prepared to break your own heart; title: Sue Miller: the hot dramas of the domestic scene; title: Sena Jeter Naslund: to be human is to be artistically creative; title: Ann Patchett: constantly plagiarizing myself; title: Jayne Anne Phillips: taking cues from the work itself; title: A.J. Verdelle: managing the whole fictive world; title: Lois-Ann Yamanaka: the characters know the sound of their own voice.