Master class : lessons from leading writers

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Author:

Bunge, Nancy L.

ISBN:

9780877459651

9780877459668

Personal Author:

Bunge, Nancy L.

Publication Information:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

xiii, 241 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Something my life can teach other people / You see beauty and you want to share it / We should try to be as good as Shakespeare / Poet comes out of the people / Each act of writing becomes a whole new experience / There's nothing like the literary imagination / I grew up in a very rich and exotic world / You need to write to be a writer / I place a lot of faith in that private searchlight / You've got to make the decisions yourself, if you're an artist / If you're only a copy of a person, you aren't going to write very well / We are creative creatures / Good writing isn't about easy things / Have poetry be a practice / I don't know whether you can do justice to yourself without doing justice to the world / Hardest and loneliest profession / Writer works to give the reader a true experience / I want it to be true / Getting it as right as it can be got / People with curiosity are always right out there / With each book, I'm learning how to write that book / It's this impulse toward order, the pleasure of discovering design / I get curious about a group of characters and I start investigating them / I inhabit each character / Those moments of clarity are little gems / I think that one should exist trying to be aware of as much as possible / I just think I'm really lucky / Nothing is more moving to me than what happens in the average life / Acquiescence to the unknown allows writers to stay vital

Subject Term:

Authorship.

Authorship -- Study and teaching.

Authors -- Interviews.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047012-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047012-d.html

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Summary

Master Class: Lessons from Leading Writers gathers more than two decades of wisdom from twenty-nine accomplished authors. It offers previously unpublished interviews along with freshly edited versions of ten interviews from Nancy Bunge's well-received previous collection, Finding the Words. The first section, Theory, incorporates interviews which document the golden age of writing programs in which authors with a strong sense of social and cultural responsibility taught as seriously as they wrote. These conversations delve into the writers' philosophies and teaching methods. The second section, Practice, presents interviews with authors who discuss how they've approached the writing of particular works. Altogether the interviews introduce authors as inspirational models and provide insightful techniques for other writers to try. One piece of advice recurs with striking consistency: to produce fresh, interesting work, aspiring writers must develop a passionate self-trust. This rule has an essential corollary: improving as a writer means constantly stretching oneself with new information and skills. Sure to interest writing and literature teachers as well as writers at every stage of development, Master Class is highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate writing courses.

Interviews with Marvin Bell, Ivan Doig, Sandra Gilbert, Allen Ginsberg, Donald Hall, Jim Harrison, Etheridge Knight, Margot Livesey, Larry McMurtry, James Alan McPherson, Clarence Major, Bobbie Ann Mason, Sue Miller, N. Scott Momaday, Kyoko Mori, Thylias Moss, W. S. Penn, Kit Reed, Alix Kates Shulman, William Stafford, Wallace Stegner, Ruth Stone, Scott Turow, Katherine Vaz, Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldman, Richard Wilbur, Richard Yates, and Helen Yglesias.