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Author:

Ellis, Sherry, 1950-

Title:

Illuminating fiction : a collection of author interviews with today's best writers of fiction / [conducted and] edited by Sherry Ellis.

Publisher:

Red Hen Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xii, 210 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
American fiction--21st century--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.
Authors, American--21st century--Interviews.
Fiction--Authorship.

Contents:

Introduction -- Foreword to the early draft from The known world / by Edward P. Jones -- Stamford : a short story / by Edward P. Jones -- Edward P. Jones : imagined worlds -- Julia Glass : a palette of words -- Arthur Golden : a sense of urgency -- Jill McCorkle : every town has its stories -- Matthew Sharpe : novels as omnivores -- Mary Yukari Waters : what I will follow -- Ron Carlson : inventory of Ron Carlson -- Amy Bloom : characters that won't go away -- Lise Haines : blindfolds, hypnotism, and chairs -- Paul Lisicky : looking for surprise -- Lan Samantha Chang : memories that reach back into consciousness -- Steve Almond : revealing your characters -- Joan Leegant : the life around them : animating the inanimate -- Kathleen Spivack : pulling yourself in -- Chris Abani : coming to Elvis -- Elizabeth Searle : mistress of ceremonies -- Margot Livesey : a little in common -- Fred Leeborn : growing the story -- Yiyun Li : tell, don't show.

ISBN:

1597090689 (pbk.)
9781597090681 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)432311425

LCCN:

2009924820

Locations:

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