Why I write thoughts on the practice of fiction / edited by Will Blythe.
| Other author | Blythe, Will. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Boston : Little, Brown, ©1998. |
| Description | xxv, 226 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Will Blythe. -- At the point of my pen / Norman Mailer. -- Uncanny the singing that comes from certain husks / Joy Williams. -- Where does writing come from? / Richard Ford. -- A am a ... Genius! / Thom Jones. -- Some for glory, some for praise / James Salter. -- That's what dogs do / Amy Hempel. -- Stories / Pat Conroy. -- Writing and a life lived well: notes on Allan Gurganus / Ann Patchett. -- Easing my heart inside / Terry McMillan. -- Why the daily writing of fiction matters / Rich Bass. -- Phobia and composition / Rick Moody & Margaret F.M. Davis. -- Secret agent / Denis Johnson. -- The lousy rider / Elizabeth Gilbert. -- Writing / William Vollmann. -- For the money / Mark Jacobson. -- Why I write / Stephen Wright. -- Everything else falls away / Lee Smith. -- The nature of the fun / David Foster Wallace. -- Why I write, or not / Jim Harrison. -- The wolf in the tail grass / Mary Gaitskill. -- Rent retards the revolution! / Darius James. -- The war we can't win, we can't lose, we can't quit / Barry Hannah. -- Collecting myself / Tom Chiarella. -- Why she writes / Jayne Anne Phillips. -- In silence / Robert Stone. -- Who is that man tied to the mast? / Mark Richard. |
| General note | Twenty-five original essays on writing. |
| LCCN | 98021419 |
| ISBN | 0316102296 |