At the age of 20, Frank Stitt set out to conquer the world. After travelling extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, Stitt returned to Alabama, armed with enough culinary inspiration to create a gastronomic revolution. Now, Alabama's favourite son has written his first cookbook, a combination of rustic and elegant southern offerings that whet ...
First published in 1967, this is an autobiography that is a memoir of boyhood and adolescence. Beginning with a lesson in brutality at a progressive boarding school, the book moves to a self-help settlement in Florida, a Connecticut mental hospital (where Conroy's mother and stepfather are wardens), and to New York City (where he survives by his ...
The title story in this collection narrates the lifelong effects on a son of the trauma experienced when his psychotic father threatens to drop him from a fifth-floor window. A common thread running through the eight stories is a man's growing awareness of the world around him.
The Iowa Writers' Workshop offered the first graduate degree in creative writing and has long been considered one of the best programs of its kind. In this volume, professors and former students in the program write about writing. Barry Hannah, Ethan Canin, Francine Prose, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Elizabeth McCracken are ...
New in the Crown Journeys series: one of America's most acclaimed memoirists offers a lyrical, nostalgic reminiscence of the joys of life on Nantucket. 5 photos 1 map.
The director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a celebrated memoirist, Conroy presents a volume of his magazine essays. Taken together, the pieces assembled here cohere to portray many aspects of Conroy's biography, from his childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, to his profound experience as a teacher, and include glowing writing about jazz ...
First published in 1967, "Stop-Time" was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the road; of odd jobs and lost friendships, brutal schools and first loves; of a father's ...
The much-maligned institution of the graduate creative writing workshop gets a blast of positive publicity with this collection of stories and essays by graduates of the country's most prestigious workshop. Testimonials from happy graduates supplement stories by Iowa vets, beginning with the program's earliest students such as Wallace Stegner, ...
According to the New York Times Book Review, the Iowa Short Fiction Award is among the most prestigious literary prizes America offers, and the Chicago Tribune has called the honor "a respected prize that annually introduces readers to a writer whose work is little known outside the circle of literary magazine and university publications." In 1991 ...
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