Off the Page: Writers Talk about Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between
Carole Burns
(Editor)
Marie Arana
(Introduction by)
Description
How do writers approach a new novel? Do they start with plot, character, or theme? A. S. Byatt starts with color. E. L. Doctorow begins with an image. In Off the Page, authors tell us how they work, giving insight into their writing process. Gathered from some of today's best writers--Paul Auster, Martin Amis, Gish Jen, Dan Chaon, Alice McDermott, and many others interviewed on washingtonpost.com's "Off the Page" series--host Carole Burns has woven their wisdom into chapters illuminating to any writer or reader. How does place influence authors? How do they make a sex scene work? How do they tell when the work is done? Walter Mosley defying genre; Shirley Hazzard on love; Michael Cunningham on compassion: these and more from Richard Ford, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Charles Baxter will deepen your appreciation for the art of writing and excite you to try new ways of writing yourself.Product Details
Price
$21.95
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
December 01, 2007
Pages
231
Dimensions
6.41 X 0.61 X 8.37 inches | 0.48 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393330885
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About the Author
Carole Burns, a freelance reviewer for the Washington Post, was the winner of Ploughshares' John C. Zacharis First Book Award in 2015 for her story collection, The Missing Woman. Carole worked as a journalist, including for washingtonpost.com and the New York Times, for some 15 years before moving to the UK, where she is now the head of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton. Her early years as a local journalist in Connecticut was influential in the writing of this novel, as was her perspective as an American ex-pat living in the UK. Her short fiction has been longlisted in the BBC's National Short Story Award and published in Mslexia.
Marie Arana was born in Lima, Peru. She is the author of the memoir American Chica, a finalist for the National Book Award; two novels, Cellophane and Lima Nights; the prizewinning biography Bolivar; Silver, Sword, and Stone, a narrative history of Latin America; and The Writing Life, a collection from her well-known column for The Washington Post. She is the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress and lives in Washington, DC, and Lima, Peru.
