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"It's been barely twenty years since Dave Eggers (b. 1970) burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. In that time, he has gone on to publish several books of fiction, a few more books of nonfiction, a dozen books for children, and many harder-to-classify works. In addition to his authorship, Eggers has established himself as an influential publisher, editor, and designer. He has also founded a publishing company, McSweeney's; two magazines, Might and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern; and several nonprofit organizations. This whirlwind of productivity, within publishing and beyond, gives Eggers a unique standing among American writers: jack of all trades, master of same. The interviews contained in Conversations with Dave Eggers suggest the range of Eggers's pursuits-a range that is reflected in the variety of the interviews themselves. In addition to the expected interviews with major publications, Eggers engages here with obscure magazines and blogs, trade publications, international publications, student publications, and children from a mentoring program run by one of his nonprofits. To read the interviews in sequence is to witness Eggers's rapid evolution. The cultural hysteria around Staggering Genius and Eggers's complicated relationship with celebrity are clear in many of the earlier interviews. From there, as the buzz around him mellows, Eggers responds in kind, allowing writing and his other endeavors to come to the fore of his conversations. Together, these interviews provide valuable insight into a driving force in contemporary American literature"--

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Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction takes on gender-based violence, trauma, recovery, and motherhood, focusing an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Jill Christman's first fifty years.

Women college teachers --- Women authors, American --- Artists --- Family relationships --- Christman, Jill, --- Family. --- United States

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Creativity and 'The Paris Review' Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices centers around a thematic discourse analysis of a 2000-page corpus of 'Paris Review' interviews, focusing on the creative processes of some of the world's most famous fiction-writers and poets. The discourse analysis traces elements of the paradigmatic creative-process model - first insight, preparation, incubation, insight, verification - through the focal artists' descriptions of their composing practices as embedded in the interview transcripts. That analysis also reveals multiple and significant emergent themes germane to fiction and poetry writing. The ultimate goal of this analysis is to identify patterns relevant to the aforementioned creative-process elements and themes that are suggestive of specific strategies writers can employ to facilitate their own composing acts - whether fictional, poetic, or expository. Such findings will also benefit teachers seeking to facilitate student success in the composition classroom. In addition to the sheer pleasure and fascination derived from reading about famous authors' reflections on the creation of their masterworks, this book provides a catalog of specific environmental conditions, behavioral routines, and cognitive practices that can productively expand the repertoires of writers and writing teachers alike.

Authors, American --- Authors, English --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Creative writing. --- Paris review. --- Art --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Creative ability --- Originality --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Authorship --- Writing (Authorship) --- Authors, American. --- American authors

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A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis.The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure.Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times.

Authors, American --- Mumford, Lewis, --- Melville, Herman, --- A. Mitchell Palmer. --- Abolitionism. --- Adam Hochschild. --- Ahab. --- Ambiguity. --- Americans. --- At the Core. --- Awareness. --- Barbarian. --- Billy Budd. --- Biography. --- Captain Ahab. --- Career. --- City Of. --- Clarel. --- Commodity. --- Consciousness. --- Continuance. --- Countermovement. --- Cultural evolution. --- Deep history. --- Determination. --- Disenchantment. --- Dynasty. --- E. M. Forster. --- Emblem. --- Environmentalism. --- Escapism. --- Essay. --- Ethos. --- Exploration. --- Frigate. --- George Perkins Marsh. --- Gilded Age. --- Grief. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Herman Melville. --- His Family. --- Human Desire. --- Imperialism. --- Impressment. --- In This World. --- In the Life. --- John Claggart. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Kitimat. --- Langston Hughes. --- Lewis Mumford. --- Lifeway. --- Malcolm Cowley. --- Manifest destiny. --- Mechanization. --- Memoir. --- Michael Shelden. --- Moby-Dick. --- Modernity. --- Monomania. --- Mr. --- Narrative. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- Near East. --- Oahu. --- Omoo. --- Optimism. --- Organism. --- Poetry. --- Prometheus. --- Puritans. --- Queequeg. --- Redburn. --- Reign. --- Remarkable. --- Requirement. --- Role. --- Romanticism. --- Scientism. --- Scurvy. --- Slang. --- Slavery. --- Suffering. --- Technology. --- The Conduct of Life. --- The Encantadas. --- The Golden Day. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Rest of the Story. --- The Spirit of the Age. --- Tropic of Capricorn. --- Typee. --- Uncertainty. --- Utopia. --- V. --- W. Somerset Maugham. --- Warfare. --- White-Jacket. --- William Roscoe. --- Woolf. --- Works and Days. --- Writing.