The pleasure of influence
Subtitle: conversations with  American male fiction writers
By: Rob Trucks.
Publisher: NotaBell Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; American fiction -- Male authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.; Male authors, American -- Interviews.; Fiction -- Authorship.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: "In this collection of interviews, eleven of the most important American male fiction writers of our time - Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, National Book Award nominees Thom Jones, Barry Hannah, and Stephen Dixon, as well as Russell Banks, Rick Moody, Chris Offutt, Stewart O'Nan, Steve Erickson, and Gordon Lish - candidly discuss the origin, process, and achievement of their own fiction.

All of the writers in this collection are working with personal truths, particular to their experience, yet they operate within a defined referential tradition. The material is unmistakably their own, the way they tell the story is their own, but they are always mindful of the world that preceded them."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Thom Jones; title: Rick Moody; title: Steve Erickson; title: Robert Olen Butler; title: Gordon Lish; title: Stephen Dixon; title: Chris Offutt; title: Stewart O'Nan; title: Barry Hannah; title: Russell Banks; title: Charles Johnson.