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02408aam a2200325 i 4500 001 7C7F769E0CA811EDB1735DF129ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220726010056 008 210819t20222022mnu 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2021945925 020 $a 1644450917 020 $a 9781644450918 035 $a (OCoLC)1264272308 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d PX0 $d JAS $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS379 B37 2022 100 1 $a Baxter, Charles, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Wonderlands : $b essays on the life of literature / $c Charles Baxter. 246 3 $a Wonder lands 264 1 $a Minneapolis, Minnesota : $b Graywolf Press, $c [2022] 300 $a x, 252 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "Searching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House. Charles Baxter's new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext. In the mold of those books, Baxter shares years of wisdom and reflection on what makes fiction work, including essays that were first given as craft talks at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. The essays here range from brilliant thinking on the nature of wonderlands in the fiction of Haruki Murakami and other fabulist writers, to how request moments function in a story. Baxter is equally at home tackling a thorny matter such as charisma (which intersects with political figures like the disastrous forty-fifth US president) as he is bringing new interest to subjects such as list-making in fiction. Amid these craft essays, an interlude of two personal essays--the story of a horrifying car crash and an introspective "letter to a young poet"--add to the intimate nature of the book. The final essay reflects on a lifetime of writing, and closes with a memorable image of Baxter as a boy, waiting at the window for a parent who never arrives and filling that absence with stories. Wonderlands will stand alongside his prior work as an insightful and lasting work of criticism."--provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American essays $y 21st century. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221203065843.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20221005014736.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220902010313.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7C7F769E0CA811EDB1735DF129ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search