The very telling
Subtitle: conversations with American writers
By: Sarah Anne Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, Sarah Anne.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781584655275; 9781584655947
Subjects: Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.; Authors, American -- 21st century -- Interviews.; Authorship.
Genres: Interviews.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206).
Table of contents: title: Michael Cunningham : a bottomless fascination with the process itself; title: Edwidge Danticat : you have to live your characters' lives with them; title: Mary Gaitskill : I've worked very alone and very privately; title: Myla Goldberg : moving through the language on the page; title: Ha Jin : making the sentences fresh; title: Bret Anthony Johnston : there is an unassailable victory in the very telling of a story; title: Edward P. Jones : the image you woke up with; title: Lê Thi Diem Thúy : writing certain experiences into the language; title: Chang-rae Lee : the drama of consciousness; title: Jonathan Lethem : discovering the story word by word; title: Alice Mattison : my poems began to get more like stories; title: Rick Moody : when you see a rule, break it; title: Nancy Rawles : I try to write rhythmically; title: Marilynne Robinson : an intensifier of experience; title: Donna Tartt : character is the very lifeblood of fiction; title: Mary Yukari Waters : snatching at random bits of light.