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Title:

Conversations with American women writers / Sarah Anne Johnson.

Publisher:

University Press of New England,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xv, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women authors, American--Interviews.
Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.
Authors, American--21st century--Interviews.
Women and literature--United States.
Authorship.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Amerikaans.

Other Authors:

Johnson, Sarah Anne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-229).

Contents:

Andrea Barrett: the hidden map of the story -- Aimee Bender: somewhere along the line, I ate fairy tales -- Amy Bloom: writing and therapy have nothing in common -- Elizabeth Cox: putting the pain in straight -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: writers are great eavesdroppers -- Maria Flook: I'll see it when I believe it -- Lynn Freed: colonizing the territory of the fiction -- Gish Jen: writing off into the darkness -- Nora Okja Keller: trying to inhabit a soul -- Jill McCorkle: always looking for the bite -- Elizabeth McCracken: you must be prepared to break your own heart -- Sue Miller: the hot dramas of the domestic scene -- Sena Jeter Naslund: to be human is to be artistically creative -- Ann Patchett: constantly plagiarizing myself -- Jayne Anne Phillips: taking cues from the work itself -- A.J. Verdelle: managing the whole fictive world -- Lois-Ann Yamanaka: the characters know the sound of their own voice.

ISBN:

9781584653486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1584653485 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781584653004 (alk. paper)
1584653000 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2003020646

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)