Isbn: 9781555971816 - the true subject: writers on life and craft (17 risultati)

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Condizione: Good. First Printing. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. First Printing. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condizione: Good.

Pb. Condizione: G+. 151 pages, some underlining and notes in ink in text, otherwise the book is in very good condition.

Condizione: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. clean, unmarked copy.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The True Subject: Writers on Life and Craft This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Condizione: Like New. First Edition. ***Please Read*** Signed Copy by Jane Smiley one of the Conference Lectures - First Printing - No marks on text - My shelf location - bn1-b-23*. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. First Printing. pp.151 clean tight unread coy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 151 pages. Selected lectures from writers' conferences on the art and craft of finding a nd using artistic inspiration feature the works of Jane Smiley, Gary Snyder, Mir oslav Holub, and Mary Clearman Blew Review These fourteen thought-provoked essay s originated as lectures delivered at a variety of writers conferences. In Can M others Think?, Jane Smiley addresses the failure of literature to include mother s and argues that such authors as Toni Morrison, Sue Miller, Alice Walker, and L ouise Erdrich are creating a new literature, the literature of real, live mother hood. Gary Snyder, at the Art of the Wild Conference in Squaw Valley, claims tha t like ecosystems, consciousness, mind, imagination, and language are fundamenta lly wild, while over at the Paris Writers Conference, Julian Gloag laments the t entativeness of students who haven't been trained to think. Michael Dennis Brown e proposes that it is a sense of constantly failing to reach perfection that pro pels us to continue writing; Donald Justice, similarly, discusses the elusivenes s of the ideal. Thanks to editor Kurt Brown, we can consume the lean, nourishing meat of the conferences without having first to pick our way through the fat. - -Jane Steinberg From Publishers Weekly This anthology of 14 essays, first delive red as lectures at several writers' conferences around the country, contains som e wisdom and inspiration but lacks coherence. Jane Smiley reflects thoughtfully on the extreme paucity of mothers, and of the tradition of a maternal vision in our literary culture, and suggests that a new literature of real, live motherhoo d is being forged. Christopher Merrill, reporting on a writers' conference in Sl ovenia, finds the famous panelists ignoring the nearby Bosnian war and instead h.…

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Stapled wraps signed by Smiley to the front cover. A 15-page excerpt from the book "The True Subject." Fine condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 15 pages; Signed by Author.