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Gift of Christine Bombaro, Class of 1993.
Author : Philip Gourevitch
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312363154
Gift of Christine Bombaro, Class of 1993.
Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1448137799
In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.
Author : The Paris Review
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698408926
"A dispatch from the front lines of literature." —The Atlantic The Unprofessionals is an energetic collection celebrating the bold writers at the forefront of today’s literary world—featuring stories, essays, and poems from “America’s greatest literary journal” (Time) For more than half a century, the Paris Review has launched some of the most exciting new literary voices, from Philip Roth to David Foster Wallace. But rather than trading on nostalgia, the storied journal continues to search outside the mainstream for the most exciting emerging writers. Harmonizing a timeless literary feel with impeccable modern taste, its pages are vivid proof that the best of today’s writing more than upholds the lofty standards that built the magazine’s reputation. The Unprofessionals collects pieces from the new iteration of the Paris Review by contemporary writers who treat their art not as a profession, but as a calling. Some, like Zadie Smith, Ben Lerner, and John Jeremiah Sullivan, are already major literary presences, while others, like Emma Cline, Benjamin Nugent, and Ottessa Moshfegh, will soon be household names. A master class in contemporary writing across genres, this collection introduces the must-know voices in the modern literary scene.
Author : The Paris Review
Publisher :
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781732815513
Author : The Paris Review
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312422400
This ingeniously useful compendium--organized to suit whatever time that the reader has available at that moment--offers reading material to fill those gray, in-between moments in life with beauty, wonder, insight, and emotion.
Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681374676
A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving from New England to New York to Madrid, from the art world to the underworld, but it centers on the story of Wyatt Gwyon, the son of a New England minister, who forsakes religion to devote himself to painting, only to despair of his inspiration. In expiation, he will paint nothing but flawless copies of his revered old masters—copies, however, that find their way into the hands of a sinister financial wizard by the name of Recktall Brown, who of course sells them as the real thing. Dismissed uncomprehendingly by reviewers on publication in 1955 and ignored by the literary world for decades after, The Recognitions is now established as one of the great American novels, immensely ambitious and entirely unique, a book of wild, Boschian inspiration and outrageous comedy that is also profoundly serious and sad.
Author : Nicole Rudick
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 2018-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780692087046
In 1989, George Plimpton compiled a survey of writers on writing¿anecdotes, aphorisms, and excerpts culled from the Writers at Work interviews. Our new, updated edition brings together almost four hundred writers, editors, and translators from issue no. 1 to issue no. 224 to provide a rare glimpse of what being a writer is really like. Divided into four parts¿¿The Writer: A Profile,¿ ¿Technical Matters,¿ ¿Different Forms,¿ and ¿The Writer¿s Life¿¿the book dilates on subjects such as first efforts, work habits, plot, writer¿s block, prizes, and politics.
Author :
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2003-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312422385
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the venerable "Paris Review" comes a unique anthology based on the themes of modern life.
Author : The Paris Review
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781732815506
Women at Work Vol. II is The Paris Review's second volume of interviews with women writers from the past seven decades. Introduced by editor Emily Nemens, the twelve interviews in Women at Work span the history of The Paris Review, from Marianne Moore (1961) to Maxine Groffsky (2017) by way of Katherine Anne Porter, Marguerite Young, May Sarton, Doris Lessing, Maya Angelou, Alice Munro, Jeanette Winterson, Wendy Wasserstein, Luisa Valenzuela, and Louise Erdrich. Intimate, deep, full of surprises, these classic interviews will be a source of inspiration and instruction to writers, students, and anyone else who cares about the creative process, or about the specific challenges faced by creative women.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 1982
Category : American literature
ISBN :