Conjunctions
Conjunctions

Author: Richard Powers

Publisher: Bard College

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780941964562

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In celebration of Conjunctions' 40th issue, the journal has gathered together fiction, poetry, plays and creative essays by some of its favorite contemporary writers. Featuring novels in progress from authors including Richard Powers, Howard Norman, Paul Auster and Lois-Ann Yamanaka, as well as "Heli," a surreal novella by China's foremost fiction writer, Can Xue, in which a boy falls in love with a girl who lives entrapped in a glass cabinet from which he must free her. Short fiction by writers such as Rikki Ducornet, William T. Vollmann, William H. Gass and Diane Williams appears, in addition to "Condition," a harrowing story by Christopher Sorrentino, based on historical events from the 1970s, charting the psychological disintegration of a female newscaster who, on her last day alive, methodically plots her suicide on live TV. 40x40 also features creative nonfiction by David Shields and Eliot Weinberger, poetry by Cole Swensen, Martine Bellen, John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian and Robert Creeley, and a visual poem by Tan Lin. Rounding out this diverse celebration of contemporary work is a previously unpublished play by Joyce Carol Oates, specially commissioned for this anniversary issue, and a lively full-color portfolio of new work by Russian emigre artist Ilya Kabakov.

Conjunctions
Conjunctions

Author: Bradford Morrow

Publisher:

Published: 2001-06-02

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780941964463

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CONJUNCTION's 30th issue features an exciting and eclectic array of today's best writers. This festive issue features a stellar group of novelists, poets, short story writers, playwrights, and artists, brought together under the banner, PAPER AIRPLANE--words on paper, language planing through the air from writer to reader, to celebrate the soaring vitality of contemporary letters.

New Essays on 'The House of Mirth'
New Essays on 'The House of Mirth'

Author: Deborah Esch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-01-15

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780521378338

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This volume, first published in 2001, makes distinctive claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's breakthrough work.

The Faith of a Writer
The Faith of a Writer

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0061742708

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A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose, poetry, personal and critical essays, as well as plays -- she is an artist ideally suited to answer essential questions about what makes a story striking, a novel come alive, a writer an artist as well as a craftsman. In The Faith of a Writer, Oates discusses the subjects most important to the narrative craft, touching on topics such as inspiration, memory, self-criticism, and "the unique power of the unconscious." On a more personal note, she speaks of childhood inspirations, offers advice to young writers, and discusses the wildly varying states of mind of a writer at work. Oates also pays homage to those she calls her "significant predecessors" and discusses the importance of reading in the life of a writer. Oates claims, "Inspiration and energy and even genius are rarely enough to make 'art': for prose fiction is also a craft, and craft must be learned, whether by accident or design." In fourteen succinct chapters, The Faith of a Writer provides valuable lessons on how language, ideas, and experience are assembled to create art.

The Paris Review
The Paris Review

Author: George Plimpton

Publisher: Random House Trade

Published: 1998-07

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780375751783

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The latest issue of THE PARIS REVIEW highlights the art of biography in interviews with esteemed biographers Robert Caro, David McCullough, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. This spring issue also includes reminiscences of literary life in Paris by Richard Wilbur and Norman Mailer, as well as contributions from such distinguished biographers as Antonia Fraser, Philip Ziegler, and Michael Holroyd.

The Scene Book
The Scene Book

Author: Sandra Scofield

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-03-27

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780143038269

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A treasure-trove of scene-writing wisdom from award-winning author and teacher Sandra Scofield To write a good scene, you have to know the following: • Every scene has an EVENT • Every scene has a FUNCTION in the narrative • Every scene has a STRUCTURE: a beginning, middle, and end • Every scene has a PULSE The Scene Book is a fundamental guide to crafting more effective scenes in fiction. In clear, simple language, Sandra Scofield shows both the beginner and the seasoned writer how to build better scenes, the underpinning of any good narrative.

A Plea for Eros
A Plea for Eros

Author: Siri Hustvedt

Publisher: Picador

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1429900490

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From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers. Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization, elegantly combining intellect, emotion, wit, and passion. With a light touch and consummate clarity, she undresses the cultural prejudices that veil both literature and life and explores the multiple personalities that inevitably inhabit a writer's mind. Is it possible for a woman in the twentieth century to endorse the corset, and at the same time approach with authority what it is like to be a man? Hustvedt does. Writing with rigorous honesty about her own divided self, and how this has shaped her as a writer, she also approaches the works of others--Fitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry James--with revelatory insight, and a practitioner's understanding of their art.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781590318737

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.