The Eleventh Draft: Craft and the Writing Life from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (Uncorrected Proof)

Support Small Business by buying this book! Uncorrected Proof (PAPERBACK) No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read if at all. . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) This monkey, my back by T. Coraghessan Boyle -- 2.) View of writing fiction from the rear window by Doris Grumbach -- 3.) Smallness and invention; or, what I learned at the Iowa Writers' Workshop by Ethan Canin -- 4.) Ralston by Stuart Dybek -- 5.) Widow speaks by Jayne Anne Phillips -- 6.) Not knowing by Fred G. Leebron -- 7.) If I could be like Mike by Tom Grimes -- 8.) Mr. brain, he want a song by Barry Hannah -- 9.) Wise fool by Susan Power -- 10.) Hidden machinery by Margot Livesey -- 11.) Communal solitude by Geoffrey Wolff -- 12.) Resistance by Deborah Eisenberg. Writing life by William Lashner -- 13.) On details by Francine Prose -- 14.) Lottery ticket by Elizabeth McCracken -- 15.) Diminished creatures by Marilynne Robinson -- 16.) Why I bother by James Hynes -- 17.) Difference between being good and being a good writer by Scott Spencer -- 18.) Workshopping lucius mummius by James Alan McPherson -- 19.) Dead man by Justin Cronin -- 20.) Cowpaths by Abraham Verghese -- 21.) Eleventh draft by Chris Offutt -- 22.) Seattle, 1974: writing and place by Charles D'Ambrosio.