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Bringing the devil to his knees : the craft of fiction and the writing life
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Bringing the devil to his knees : the craft of fiction and the writing life

Author: Charles Baxter; Peter Turchi
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2001.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : English
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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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