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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles Baxter; Peter Turchi |
| ISBN: | 0472097741 9780472097746 0472067745 9780472067749 |
| OCLC Number: | 45582727 |
| Description: | 258 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | In defense of omniscience / Richard Russo -- I know myself real well. That's the problem / Jim Shepard -- Where's Iago / Susan Neville -- Finding a voice in America / Steven Schwartz -- Behind the mask : narrative voice in fiction / Chuck Wachtel -- Weight in fiction / Joan Silber -- Chekhov and form / Ehud Havazelet -- "You're really something" : inflection and the breath of life / Charles Baxter -- Getting in and getting out : first words on first (and last) words / Debra Spark -- Dream, memory, story, and the recovery of narrative / Karen Brennan -- Narrative spandrels / Robert Boswell -- The scene beast is hungry / C.J. Hribal -- The writer as cartographer / Peter Turchi -- "Mom's on the roof" : the usefulness of jokes in shaping short stories / Antonya Nelson -- Ruining a story / Michael Martone -- The editor comes clean at last (A tale of one rejection letter and one acceptance letter to Stephen Crane) / Kevin McIlvoy -- Literature and democracy / Pablo Medina -- Thinking about a reader / Judith Grossman -- How to tell a true story / Margot Livesey. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Charles Baxter and Peter Turchi. |
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