Writers on Writing: The Art of the Short Story

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Short stories have enjoyed a long and popular history, with many famous writers contributing to the genre. Here, Lee assembles a variety of writers who comment on the form itself and its many varieties and manifestations. Concentrating on the features and challenges of the short story, contributors including Amiri Baraka, Richard Ford, Jayne Anne Phillips and Janette Turner Hospital discuss their own writing, the writing of others, the short story form, gender, politics, and other issues relating to the writing of short fiction. Readers will come away with a fuller understanding and appreciation of the craft of the short story writer. The contributors challenge some of the traditional views of past and current critics about short fiction, and present a new outlook that speaks to both the writer and the reader.

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This book should be very intersting to readers, writers, and critics, as well as to those interested in the problems and implications of literary criticism for other fields. * Council on National Literatures Book Digest *
In this collection of nearly three dozen essays about short story, contributors reveal the diversity of their attitudes, backgrounds and approaches. * Reference & Research Book News *

Author Bio

Maurice A. Lee is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas. He is also the founder and Chief Editor of The Journal of Caribbean Literatures (JCLs), which he founded in 1999. He co-edited the book A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English (Greenwood, 2000).