Facing the Lion: Writers on Life and Craft - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080706209X ISBN 13: 9780807062098

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1996

Synopsis

Now writers or would-be writers can read the most provocative and the most useful lectures on life and craft presented at such select conferences as Bread Loaf, the Wesleyan Writers' Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. In these addresses, Ellen Bryant Voigt, X. J. Kennedy, Francine Prose, and Marvin Bell, among others, give intimate accounts of the struggle to create something worthy of being published and read.

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From the Back Cover

Facing the Lion, the third volume in the Writers on Life and Craft Series, presents some of the most provocative and inspiring talks delivered to select audiences at writers' conferences in the U. S. and abroad. Here Ellen Bryant Voigt, X. J. Kennedy, Francine Prose, and Marvin Bell, among others, give intimate accounts of the struggle to create something worthy of being published and read.

Review

Facing The Lion: Writers On Life And Craft presents some of the most provocative and inspiring tales delivered to select audiences at writers' conferences in the U. S. and abroad. Here Ellen Bryant Voight, X. J. Kennedy, Francine Prose, and Marvin Bell (among others) give intimate accounts of the struggle to create something worthy of being published and read. This anthology of stimulating, insightful, and at times inspiring essays will give novice writers and aspiring poets an energy to create, and even established authors and seasoned wordsmiths a renewed vigour for a craft and a vocation that is at once competitive and isolationist, exhilarating and just plain hard work. -- Midwest Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 080706209X
• ISBN 13: 9780807062098
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 181
• Editor: Brown Kurt