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

Editor-Frank Conroy

ISBN 10: 0062736396 / ISBN 13: 9780062736390

Published by HarperCollins October 1999, 1999

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Eleventh Draft: Craft and the Writing Life from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (Uncorrected Proof)
• Publisher: HarperCollins October 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062736396
• ISBN 13: 9780062736390
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lit::Writing & For Writers

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Synopsis

Professors and graduates of the highly acclaimed Iowa Writer's Workshop, including T. Coraghesson Boyle and Doris Grumbach, offer insightful essays on the craft of writing and on the writing life.

About the Author

Frank Conroy, the former director of the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts, became the fifth director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1987. He is the author of three books: Stop Time, nominated for the National Book Award; Midair; and Body & Soul. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa, with his wife, Maggie, and his son, Tim.