Writers on writing: more collected essays from The New York Times. / Jane Smiley [introduction by John Darnton]

Contributor(s): New York TimesMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York: Henry Holt, 2003Description: xiv, 265 pISBN: 0805067418 - vol. 1; 0805075887 - vol. 2Subject(s): English language -- AuthorshipDDC classification: 808/.0427 LOC classification: PN137.W73
Contents:
Content: Introduction -- Poems foster self-discovery -- A path taken -- Essentials get lost in the shuffle -- Timeless tact helps sustain a literacy time --Yes, there are seconds acts -- Footprints of greatness on your turf -- New insights into the novel -- Returning to Proust's world stirs remembrance -- Forget ideas -- In Paris and Moscow -- Recognizing the book -- How to insult a writer -- Calming the inner critic --A narrator leaps past a journalist --They leap from your brain then take over -- When inspiration started -- A career despite dad's advice -- Seeing the unimaginable freezes the imagination -- Hemingway's blessing - Returning to the character who started it all-- Negotiating the darkness -- Hometown boy makes waves -- As her son creates his story --
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PN137.W73 (Browse shelf) Available K/2789/2789/19

Volume 2 Includes index.

Content: Introduction -- Poems foster self-discovery -- A path taken -- Essentials get lost in the shuffle -- Timeless tact helps sustain a literacy time --Yes, there are seconds acts -- Footprints of greatness on your turf -- New insights into the novel -- Returning to Proust's world stirs remembrance -- Forget ideas -- In Paris and Moscow -- Recognizing the book -- How to insult a writer -- Calming the inner critic --A narrator leaps past a journalist --They leap from your brain then take over -- When inspiration started -- A career despite dad's advice -- Seeing the unimaginable freezes the imagination -- Hemingway's blessing - Returning to the character who started it all-- Negotiating the darkness -- Hometown boy makes waves -- As her son creates his story --

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