A study of poetic influence throughout history. Eshleman examines the ways in which younger poets, consciously or unconsciously, attach themselves to the style of more established writers and either imitate or react against them.
Written with elegance, warmth, and humor, this highly original "teaching memoir" by William Zinsserrenowned bestselling author of On Writing Well gives you the tools to organize and recover your past, and the confidence to believe in your life narrative. His method is to take you on a memoir of his own: 13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, ...
Bloch, one of the most acclaimed horror writers of our century, take the reader from his early years in a suburb of Chicago to his first fateful encounter with the cult fiction magazine Weird Tales to meetings with famous Hollywood superstars, including Ray Bradbury, Vincent Price, and Boris Karloff. Photos.
The author of "The Barracks Thief" and "Hunters in the Snow" recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the background of a violent and wildly optimistic America.
Responding to readers who have written to her to ask how they, too, can become published writers someday, the noted author presents this memoir and shares anecdotes, advice, and incidents from her childhood that helped her to grow and develop as a writer. photo insert and appendix with concise writing tips.
In this book, Mickey Pearlman listens to the voices of women who write. Some, like Grace Paley, Fay Weldon and Jane Smiley, have numerous admirers. Others - Janette Turner Hospital and Jessica Hagedorn - are just now achieving recognition. Novelists, short-story writers, poets and writers of non-fiction - twenty voices in all - talk candidly about ...
Brian Lamb, host of C-Span's "Booknotes," collects essays taken from the program, featuring writers like Shelby Foote, Norman Mailer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Howell Raines.
In a series of interviews, many not previously published, Stephen King talks candidly about his early years as a writer, the initial recognition followed by the joys and strains of his huge bestsellers, and the problems of fame and fortune.
Discover in this biography how Sandra Cisneros overcomes many hardships, including poverty and racism, to become a unique voice of Mexican-American literature. Her coming-of-age novella, THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, remains a favorite of young readers today, more than twenty years after its release. Cisneros now encourages other women and members of ...
This anthology collects essays by 19 contemporary novelists, poets, and essayists, who recount the various processes by which they became well-known and heavily published writers. Annie Proulx and Kay Ryan have essays here, as do David Wong Louie, Jewelle Gomez, and Adam Hochschild.
During the past 25 years, a tremendous boom has occurred in the publishing of biographies, especially literary biographies--that is, lives of creative writers. Yet, according to this critical study, literary biographers have most often focused their efforts merely upon presenting historical facts while being generally unaware of artistic ...
Prolific author, Stephen King published his first short story, "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber," in "Comics Review" in 1965. Though often disparaged by literary critics, his work has influenced an entire generation of horror and science fiction writers, and he was awarded the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to ...
When H.L. Mencken died in 1956, he left behind well-ordered diaries, letters and personal papers that are collected here in this text. The work quotes from Mencken's writings on every subject, from Americans ("the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag") to the English ( ...
Stephen King: Author profiles the life and career of one of America's most prolific and best-selling authors. Stephen King was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 2003 National Book Awards ceremony. His books have sold millions of copies, been translated into 33 languages, and been adapted into many film and ...
Conversations with twenty successful authors about conquering the demon of rejection. Every author, from unpublished to bestselling, experiences rejection—from agents, editors, publishers, critics, even loved ones. It comes with the turf. But rejection can stop a writer dead in his tracks unless he learns how to persevere. In these ...
In "Off the Page" today's best writers reveal their secrets, tell us how they work and give insight into their writing process. Paul Auster, Martin Amis, Gish Jen, Dan Chaon, Alice McDermott and many others have been interviewed on washingtonpost.com's "Off the Page" series and now host Carole Burns has woven their wisdom into chapters ...
Thirty-two fiction writers write letters to young friends and students who aspire to become writers themselves. The advice ranges from Richard Bausch's ten commandments (including "Be wary of all advice") to Raymond Carver's caution about alcoholism, "the writer's disease."
Are we witnessing the death of American poetry? Many critics have charged as much, pointing to a poetry that is increasingly marginal, specialized and cloistered. Challenging such doomsayers, Jonathan Holden offers a hopeful appraisal of the current state of American poetry, and he suggests several avenues American poets might take to attract the ...
Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the 'New Yorker'. In 'Happy Days', Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s and celebrates a way of life that he saw ...
In this revealing and varied collection of interviews, Stephen King talks about his life, family, films and in particular about his macabre novels of the unknown that have made him so well known.
Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies which enfeeble it. Written by a master of fiction, "Ten Novels and Their Authors" is a unique and invaluable guide.
Tasty revelations from the world's celebrated fright master. In interviews culled from a wide range of publications from 1973 to 1989, Stephen King invites readers into his own private world. Includes King's thoughts on his books and movies, his opinion of other writers, insight on why he does what he does, and more.
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