The very telling : conversations with American writers / Sarah Anne Johnson.
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| Language: | English |
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Hanover, N.H. :
University Press of New England,
[2006], ©2006.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 206 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Michael Cunningham : a bottomless fascination with the process itself
- Edwidge Danticat : you have to live your characters' lives with them
- Mary Gaitskill : I've worked very alone and very privately
- Myla Goldberg : moving through the language on the page
- Ha Jin : making the sentences fresh
- Bret Anthony Johnston : there is an unassailable victory in the very telling of a story
- Edward P. Jones : the image you woke up with
- Lê Thi Diem Thúy : writing certain experiences into the language
- Chang-rae Lee : the drama of consciousness
- Jonathan Lethem : discovering the story word by word
- Alice Mattison : my poems began to get more like stories
- Rick Moody : when you see a rule, break it
- Nancy Rawles : I try to write rhythmically
- Marilynne Robinson : an intensifier of experience
- Donna Tartt : character is the very lifeblood of fiction
- Mary Yukari Waters : snatching at random bits of light.