The Eleventh Draft,9780062736390

The Eleventh Draft

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ISBN13: 9780062736390
ISBN10: 0062736396
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-08-06
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

Professors and graduates of the highly acclaimed Iowa Writer's Workshop, including T. Coraghesson Boyle and Doris Grumbach, offer insightful essays on the craft of writing and on the writing life.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
This Monkey, My Back
1(12)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
A View of Writing Fiction From the Rear Window
13(8)
Doris Grumbach
Smallness and Invention; or, What I Learned at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
21(8)
Ethan Canin
Ralston
29(12)
Stuart Dybek
The Widow Speaks
41(8)
Jayne Anne Phillips
Not Knowing
49(8)
Fred G. Leebron
If I Could Bee Like Mike
57(10)
Tom Grimes
Mr. Brain, He Want a Song
67(10)
Barry Hannah
The Wise Fool
77(8)
Susan Power
The Hidden Machinery
85(16)
Margot Livesey
Communal Solitude
101(12)
Geoffrey Wolff
Resistance
113(12)
Deborah Eisenberg
The Writing Life
125(8)
William Lashner
On Details
133(12)
Francine Prose
Lottery Ticket
145(10)
Elizabeth McCracken
Diminished Creatures
155(8)
Marilynne Robinson
Why I Bother
163(12)
James Hynes
The Difference Between Being Good and Being a Good Writer
175(6)
Scott Spencer
Workshopping Lucius Mummius
181(18)
James Alan McPherson
The Dead Man
199(10)
Justin Cronin
Cowpaths
209(6)
Abraham Verghese
The Eleventh Draft
215(8)
Chris Offutt
Seattle, 1974: Writing and Place
223(8)
Charles D'Ambrosio
Notes on Contributors 231

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