Writers on writing: more collected essays from The New York Times. / [introduction by John Darnton]
Jane Smiley
- New York: Henry Holt, 2003.
- xiv, 265 p. :
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 --