An unsentimental education
Subtitle: writers and Chicago
By: edited by Molly McQuade.
Contributors: McQuade, Molly.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Illinois -- Chicago; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews; City and town life in literature; Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Chicago (Ill.) -- In literature
Description: An Unsentimental Education is a collection of candid interviews with twenty-one of our leading novelists and poets. Presented as first-person essays, the interviews are with contemporary writers who have studied or taught at the University of Chicago. The book provides an occasion for the writers to reflect on their Chicago experiences and on ideas about education in general. What education does a writer need? How can formal learning impel the writing life?

What school stories or tales told out of school do Philip Roth, Hayden Carruth, Marguerite Young, George Steiner, Charles Simic, Susan Sontag, and Saul Bellow have in store and want to share?
Notes: Includes index.