UID:
almafu_9958351990402883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780231504461
Content:
The novelist, critic, and book commentator from National Public Radio's All Things Considered looks back at some of the thousands of books he has read, reviewed, and loved, reflecting on the authors and works that have influenced him in his own writing and then focusing his attention on the process of writing itself.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: Getting Started; or, Two Thousand Books --
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Part 1. Reading --
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1. Writing It Down for James: Some Thoughts on Reading Toward the Millennium --
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2. Books in Flames: A View of Latin American Literature --
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3. The Lost Books --
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4. Hamlet in Haiti: Style in Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World --
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5. Traces of Light: The Paradoxes of Narrative Painting and Pictorial Fiction --
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6. Truth as Fiction: Or, the Tail of the Monstrous Peacock --
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7. The Consolation of Art --
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Part 2. Rereading --
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8. You Can Read Wolfe Again --
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9. Stories of Deep Delight --
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10. Of Steinbeck and Salinas --
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11. The Return of James Agee --
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12. Mario Vargas Llosa and Conversation in the Cathedral: The Question of Naturalism --
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13. Where Is She Going? Where Has She Been?: Elizabeth Tallent’s “No One’s a Mystery’’ and the Poetry of Female Initiation --
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14. A Wintry Saga --
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15. Bernard and Juliet: Romance and Desire in Malamud’s High Art --
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16. Fitzgerald’s Christmas Carol, or the Burden of “The Camel’s Back’’ --
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17. A Note on Landscape in All the Pretty Horses --
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18. Rereading Traven --
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Part 3. Writing --
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19. Confessions of an Ex-Minimalist --
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20. On the Contemporary --
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21. Of the Making of Books --
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22. Voices: A Conversation
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/cheu12270
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/cheu12270
