| Writing for Your Life 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Bing, Jonathan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1888889128 ISBN-13: 9781888889123 Publisher: Pushcart Press OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: Fifty of today's most celebrated authors discuss the writing process and reveal their impressions of the ever-changing publishing climate in Writing for Your Life #4, edited by PW's former interview editor Jonathan Bing. The subjects range from veterans such as George Plimpton, Nora Roberts and the late Alfred Kazin to a new generation of literary craftspeople, including Jonathan Lethem, Caleb Carr and Edwidge Danticat. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General |
| Dewey: 809.04 |
| LCCN: 95029394 |
| Series: Writing for Your Life |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.46" W x 9.58" (1.27 lbs) 291 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This series is unique in its devotion to the voice of the contemporary author-hundreds of interviews have been featured in the first three volumes. Writing for Your Life #4 marks the continuation of this distinguished series from Pushcart Press in association with Publishers Weekly. PW's Sybil Steinberg and Jonathan Bing cull the best author interviews from hundreds of recent columns. The first three volumes have gone into several editions and multiple printings. This fourth volume features interviews with such celebrated authors as Mary Gordon, George Plimpton, Don DeLillo, Gary Indiana, Nora Roberts, Fred Barthelme, Starling Lawrence, Jane Hamilton, Alfred Kazin, and dozens more. Past editions have included interviews with: John Updike, Michael Chabon, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Keneally, Winston Groom, Kazuo Ishiguro, Rick Bass, Seamus Heaney, Susanna Moore, Tobias Wolfe, Doris Lessing, John Gregory Dunne, Robert Harris, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Gore Vidal, Jane Smiley, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Coover, Richard Ford, and many more. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bing, Jonathan: - Jonathan Bing is editor of PW's "Interviews." |
