The Eleventh Draft - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062736396 ISBN 13: 9780062736390

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999

Synopsis

Description: xiii, 235 pages ; 22 cm. Contents: This monkey, my back / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- View of writing fiction from the rear window / Doris Grumbach -- Smallness and invention; or, what I learned at the Iowa Writers' Workshop / Ethan Canin -- Ralston / Stuart Dybek -- Widow speaks / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Not knowing / Fred G. Leebron -- If I could be like Mike / Tom Grimes -- Mr. brain, he want a song / Barry Hannah -- Wise fool / Susan Power -- Hidden machinery / Margot Livesey -- Communal solitude / Geoffrey Wolff -- Resistance / Deborah Eisenberg. Writing life / William Lashner -- On details / Francine Prose -- Lottery ticket / Elizabeth McCracken -- Diminished creatures / Marilynne Robinson -- Why I bother / James Hynes -- Difference between being good and being a good writer / Scott Spencer -- Workshopping lucius mummius / James Alan McPherson -- Dead man / Justin Cronin -- Cowpaths / Abraham Verghese -- Eleventh draft / Chris Offutt -- Seattle, 1974: writing and place / Charles D'Ambrosio. Subjects: Authorship. Creative writing (Higher education) -- Iowa -- History -- 20th century. Iowa Writers' Workshop. Creative writing (Higher education). Iowa.

About this title

Synopsis:

One of the oldest and most distinguished writing programmes in the USA, the Iowa Writers' Workshop has produced some of the greatest American writers of this century. In this text, Frank Conroy gathers together essays on writing from 25 of the workshop's most celebrated faculty and students.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0062736396
• ISBN 13: 9780062736390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 235
• Editor: Conroy Frank