Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC March 2019, 2019
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- Title
- Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC March 2019
- Publication year
- 2019
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- Used - Very Good
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1501347454
- ISBN 13
- 9781501347450
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"Focus[ing] on both the subjects' artistic output and personal engagement with racism, sexism, capital punishment . . . [t]hese unusually candid conversations with authors . . . offer perspectives on aesthetics and the realities of resistance that will appeal to a range of writers and readers." -- Library Journal
"Writers of all genres will be inspired by discussions with twenty-four authors and activists . . . who share their unique perspectives on a wide range of topics covering the aesthetic and social aspects of writing." -- Poets & Writers
From reflections on the making of literature and films to personal accounts of writing inside racial divides and working against capital punishment, the writers, poets, and activists featured in this book offer not only a fresh perspective on our present struggles but also perhaps a way through them -- for writers and readers alike.
Interviewees include: Ernest J. Gaines, Joseph Heller, Christopher Isherwood, Anaïs Nin, Lina Wertmüller, Bertrand Tavernier, Eudora Welty, James Tate, Jorge Luis Borges, Catharine Stimpson, Carolyn Heilbrun, Armando Valladares, James Baldwin, John Ashbery, Valerie Martin, Jack Gilbert, Sheila Heti, Susan Bernofsky, Francine Prose, Harold Jaffe, Yuri Herrera, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Luisa Valenzuela, and Sister Helen Prejean.
"I think it's frightfully important, and this is really much more difficult than it sounds, only to say what you absolutely believe." --Christopher Isherwood
"Most American writers probably do not think of their writing as a kind of activism. And it shouldn't have to be-I don't think we can impose that on writers-but it can be. I think for many writers, the ones I admire-it is." --Viet Thanh Nguyen
"Do you become a writer because you desire to become famous and make a lot of money? Or do you become a writer because there's something you discovered, this spark, this flash, that you want to share with other human beings knowing that they can enter into the words too?" --Sister Helen Prejean
"The hardest part of developing a style is that you have to learn to trust your voice. If I thought of my style, I'd be crippled. Somebody else said to me a long time ago in France, 'Find out what you can do, and then don't do it.'" --James Baldwin
"As I have grown older, I have come to see that the romantic notion of the outsider in love with death doesn't solve a thing. It only makes life worse. We have to find ways to create communities." --Valerie Martin
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About the Author
John Biguenet is the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He has published ten books, including Oyster, a novel, and The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories, as well as The Rising Water Trilogy: Plays and Silence (Bloomsbury, 2015). Six of his plays have been produced nationally and internationally. An O. Henry Award winner for short fiction and past president of the American Literary Translators Association, he worked as a student intern on the first issue of New Orleans Review in 1968 and edited the magazine from 1980 to 1992.
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