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Writers talking
Par John Metcalf, Claire Wilkshire. 2003
Includes interviews with and commentaries from eight Canadian writers. Listen in to Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael…
Winter on writing Newfoundland, and K.D. Miller on being 'an actor who writes'. Also features short stories by these authors. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2003.The notebooks: interviews and new fiction from contemporary authors
Par Michelle Berry, Natalee Caple. 2002
An anthology of interviews and unpublished work from 17 of Canada's finest younger authors. The writers include Esta Spalding and…
Michael Winter to Derek McCormack, Steven Heighton, and Eden Robinson. Each writer has provided not only a manuscript page facsimile but also a previously unpublished piece of fiction or poetry along with their interview. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2002.Saki, a life of Hector Hugh Munro: with six short stories never before collected
Par Saki, A. J Langguth. 1981
Born in Burma and brought up by two unlovable but genteel maiden aunts, Munro became a newspaper correspondent, amateur historian,…
satirist, and finally, master of the humorous horror story. This biography is based on his letters and an examination of his writings. c1981.Civil War stories, tales of terror, and autobiographical pieces, as well as the subversive lexicon originally titled The Cynic's Word…
Book. Includes In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians); Can Such Things Be?; and Bits of Autobiography, which contains recollections of Shiloh and Chickamauga. Edited by S. T. Joshi. 2011Biography of E.B. White (1899-1985), who wrote that he "felt a kinship for animals that he never felt for people"…
and penned the 1952 children's novel featuring a spider. Discusses White's New Yorker magazine days, marriage to editor Katharine Angell, and Maine farm that inspired Charlotte's Web (DB 46839). 2011The Keillor reader
Par Garrison Keillor. 2014
The complete short novels: Introduction by Richard Pevear (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
Par Anton Chekhov, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 2004
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be…
called short novels, here brought together in one one volume for the first time, in a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyMaking it up
Par Penelope Lively. 2005
Eight short works of fiction based on remembered experiences from Lively's own life--a genre she refers to as "confabulation." In…
"The Mozambique Channel" a nanny and her family evacuate Egypt during World War II. In "Comet" a middle-aged woman arranges a funeral for her unknown half-sister. Some strong language. 2005My century: A Novel (A Helen and Kurt Wolff Bk.)
Par Günter Grass, Gunter Grass, Michael Henry Heim. 1999
Günter Grass, the 1999 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, chronicles his own and Germany's centennium through one hundred…
short stories, one for each year of the twentieth century. For 1989 Grass recalls a parent-teacher association's concern about a schoolteacher's "obsession with the past." 1999My golden trades
Par Ivan Klíma. 1994
In these six short stories, Klima writes about life under Communism in Prague, Czechoslovakia, between 1983 and 1987, when a…
dissident author is forced to find other work. He tells of his experience as an archaeologist who hears the voices of spirits in a 2,500-year-old burial ground, a painter who must render the likeness of a girl who has committed suicide, and a smuggler who does jobs for which he is not trainedThe portable Dorothy Parker (The Viking portable library #No. 74)
Par Dorothy Parker, Brendan Gill. 1973
Revised and enlarged edition of the original material first published in 1944. Contains the humorist's collected stories, poems, articles, and…
reviews. Dorothy Parker's work expresses tender humor, penetrating wit, and trenchant satireThe stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation From The Danish
Par H. C Andersen. 2003
Modern English translation of twenty-two familiar and unfamiliar tales by Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). "The Little Mermaid" is…
told with its original dark ending. Contains notes on the stories and an essay introducing Andersen and his times. 2003Amazing Writers - A Short eBook
Par Charles Margerison. 2011
Most people enjoy reading in some form or other, be it newspapers or a heavy novel. This unique short story…
collection from The Amazing People Club explores the lives and achievements of some of the world's most influential writers, including Charles Dickens. Find out why he wrote his books and what inspired the characters which would become famous. Get a unique insight into the amazing life of William Shakespeare and his relationship with Anne Hathaway, his dreams of becoming a playwright in London, and how he worked to produce great plays like Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. His story contrasts wonderfully with Mark Twain's, who has been deemed the 'father of american literature'. Get to know Twain as he travelled through the USA, from tiny towns in Missouri to the streets of New York. Each story comes to life through BioViews®. These are short biographical narratives, similar to interviews. They provide an easy way of learning about amazing people who made major contributions and changed our world.An Aesthetic Underground
Par John Metcalf. 2014
"John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."--Alice MunroThe Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial…
prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary legend whose memoir maps the underground he labored tirelessly to establish.Subject to Change
Par Renee Rodin. 2010
Composed of autobiographical stories that sketch the resonant heights and depths of a memoir, Subject to Change is a series…
of portraits along the road of a life well-lived. These stories are articulate, intelligent, passionate records of how encounters with others have changed and shaped the humanity, character and community - the "subject" - of the writer.Historias conversadas
Par Héctor Aguilar Camín. 2019
«Una obra de gran aliento narrativo que ha conquistado para la literatura mexicana actual arquetipos de la historia y la…
cultura del país.» Álvaro Ruiz Abreu En la novela Adiós a los padres, Héctor Aguilar Camín narra la historia de su familia, marcada por la ausencia de su padre. Para decir la verdad -ésa que está más allá de los datos-, el escritor sabía que sólo podía recurrir a la literatura. En este volumen de relatos replica la misma maniobra, pero llevándola al extremo: los quince cuentos de Historias conversadas pueden leerse como la autobiografía de un personaje de ficción que en cada capítulo se inventara, o se robara, una vida distinta. Estos cuentos, estas novelas condensadas, nos recuerdan que conversar es el origen primordial de la literatura. En cada uno, Héctor Aguilar Camín reproduce con maestría la lección de Sherezada: contar una historia dentro de una historia. Y así, mediante esta estrategia, pasa revista a las pasiones de toda una vida: la amistad, la familia, los reinos perdidos, el alcohol, el amor y el deseo, la imperfección de la historia... Historias conversadas es el volumen que completa la saga familiar de Héctor Aguilar Camín y el libro que lo confirma como uno de los mejores narradores mexicanos de nuestro tiempo.HA!: A Self-Murder Mystery
Par Gordon Sheppard. 2003
On 15 March 1977, with his wife's consent, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on…
the grounds of a Montreal convent school. Shocked by this self-murder, a filmmaker friend feels compelled to understand why Aquin killed himself - and discovers, at the heart of the tragedy, an unforgettable love story. A "documentary fiction" - a category which includes In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song - HA! is a seminal work that reinvents the audio-visual revolution of the last century. Interweaving photographs, documents, and images with testimony from Aquin's friends and contemporaries, Aquin himself, and the writers and artists who influenced him, this intriguing novel takes the reader on a Joycean tour of a metropolis in the midst of political and cultural turmoil.Beauty and Sadness
Par Andre Alexis. 2010
Forgotten Fitzgerald: Echoes of a Lost America
Par F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sarah Churchwell. 2014
While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in…
popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of Fitzgerald's short stories are celebrated and anthologised today, more remain out of print than would be expected for a writer of his stature. Some of these forgotten stories deserve to be rediscovered by the many readers who love Fitzgerald's work. Sarah Churchwell, author of the acclaimed Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, has selected twelve forgotten stories from throughout Fitzgerald's career that refract, in different ways, his most familiar motifs: the changing meanings of America in the first decades of the twentieth century, and the desire to reconcile rich and poor through a romantic search for glamour, hope and wonder. Each of these stories offers a riff on the theme of America, a world we have lost, but can hear echoes of in Fitzgerald's characteristically rich, vivid prose.The Henry Miller Reader (Essay Index Reprint Ser.)
Par Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell. 1969
A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence…
Durrell. In 1958, when Henry Miller was elected to membership in the American Institute of Arts and Letters, the citation described him as: "The veteran author of many books whose originality and richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his subject matter. His boldness of approach and intense curiosity concerning man and nature are unequalled in the prose literature of our times." It is most fitting that this anthology of "the best" of Henry Miller should have been assembled by one of the first among Miller’s contemporaries to recognize his genius, the eminent British writer Lawrence Durrell. Drawing material from a dozen different books Durrell has traced the main line and principal themes of the "single, endless autobiography" which is Henry Miller’s life work. "I suspect," writes Durrell in his Introduction, "that Miller’s final place will be among those towering anomalies of authorship like Whitman or Blake who have left us, not simply works of art, but a corpus of ideas which motivate and influence a whole cultural pattern." Earlier, H. L. Mencken had said, "his is one of the most beautiful prose styles today," and the late Sir Herbert Read had written that "what makes Miller distinctive among modern writers is his ability to combine, without confusion, the aesthetic and prophetic functions." Included are stories, "portraits" of persons and places, philosophical essays, and aphorisms. For each selection Miller himself prepared a brief commentary which fits the piece into its place in his life story. This framework is supplemented by a chronology from Miller’s birth in 1891 up to the spring of 1959, a bibliography, and, as an appendix, an open letter to the Supreme Court of Norway written in protest of the ban on Sexus, a part of which appears in this volume.