Conversations With Texas Writers

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Conversations With Texas Writers

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Author : Frances Leonard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-03

Conversations With Texas Writers written by Frances Leonard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Larry McMurtry declares, "Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did." Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, "I've just never had a desire to write about any place else." In between those figurative bookends are hundreds of other writers—some internationally recognized, others just becoming known—who draw inspiration and often subject matter from the unique places and people that are Texas. To give everyone who is interested in Texas writing a representative sampling of the breadth and vitality of the state's current literary production, this volume features conversations with fifty of Texas's most notable established writers and emerging talents. The writers included here work in a wide variety of genres—novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays, essays, nonfiction, and magazine journalism. In their conversations with interviewers from the Writers' League of Texas and other authors' organizations, the writers speak of their apprenticeships, literary influences, working habits, connections with their readers, and the domestic and public events that have shaped their writing. Accompanying the interviews are excerpts from the writers' work, as well as their photographs, biographies, and bibliographies. Joe Holley's introductory essay—an overview of Texas writing from Cabeza de Vaca's 1542 Relación to the work of today's generation of writers, who are equally at home in Hollywood as in Texas—provides the necessary context to appreciate such a diverse collection of literary voices. A sampling from the book: "This land has been my subject matter. One thing that distinguishes me from the true naturalist is that I've never been able to look at land without thinking of the people who've been on it. It's fundamental to me." —John Graves "Writing is a way to keep ourselves more in touch with everything we experience. It seems the best gifts and thoughts are given to us when we pause, take a deep breath, look around, see what's there, and return to where we were, revived." —Naomi Shihab Nye "I've said this many times in print: the novel is the middle-age genre. Very few people have written really good novels when they are young, and few people have written really good novels when they are old. You just tail off, and lose a certain level of concentration. Your imaginative energy begins to lag. I feel like I'm repeating myself, and most writers do repeat themselves." —Larry McMurtry "I was a pretty poor cowhand. I grew up on the Macaraw Ranch, east of Crane, Texas. My father tried very hard to make a cowboy out of me, but in my case it never seemed to work too well. I had more of a literary bent. I loved to read, and very early on I began to write small stories, short stories, out of the things I liked to read." —Elmer Kelton

Talking With Texas Writers

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Author : Patrick Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1980

Talking With Texas Writers written by Patrick Bennett and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Texas writer, some native born and Texas raised and some immigrants to the state. They run the full range of literature from poets and playwrights to newspaperman and novelists.

Conversations With Texas Writers

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Author : Ramona Cearley
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2005-03-01

Conversations With Texas Writers written by Ramona Cearley and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Presents a collection of interviews with writers from the state of Texas, including poets, novelists, essayists, playwrights, and journalists, and provides insight into how Texas has shaped their writing, and contains excerpts from each authors work, as well as photographs, brief biographies, and bibliographies.

A Texas Dozen

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010*

A Texas Dozen written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010* with American literature categories.

Presents a collection of interviews with writers from the state of Texas and provides insight into how Texas has shaped their writing. Contains photographs, brief biographies, and bibliographies.

Palaver Interviews With Five African Writers In Texas Chinua Achebe John Pepper Clark Dennis Brutus Ezekiel Mphahlele And Kofi Awoonor

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Author : Bernth Lindfors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

Palaver Interviews With Five African Writers In Texas Chinua Achebe John Pepper Clark Dennis Brutus Ezekiel Mphahlele And Kofi Awoonor written by Bernth Lindfors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Africa categories.

Talking With Texas Writers

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Author : Patrick Bennet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980

Talking With Texas Writers written by Patrick Bennet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.

Talks On Texas Books

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Author : Walter Prescott Webb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970

Talks On Texas Books written by Walter Prescott Webb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Literary Criticism categories.

A collection of book reviews.

Conversations On Writing Fiction

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Author : Alexander Neubauer
language : en
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date : 1994

Conversations On Writing Fiction written by Alexander Neubauer and has been published by Harper Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Education categories.

Jane Smiley, John Irving, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Gail Godwin, and nine other prominent masters of the craft share their thoughts about creative writing, reflect on their own experiences, discuss specific teaching methods, and offer advice for other students and teachers.

Interviews And Conversations With 20th Century Authors Writing In English 1980 1985 And 1900 1980 Addenda

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Author : Stan A. Vrana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Interviews And Conversations With 20th Century Authors Writing In English 1980 1985 And 1900 1980 Addenda written by Stan A. Vrana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Authors categories.

Writers In Conversation With Christopher Bigsby Edward Albee Martin Amis Margaret Atwood James Baldwin J G Ballard Peter Carey Don Delillo Athol Fugard Joseph Heller John Irving Kazuo Ishiguro Doris Lessing Norman Mailer Toni Morrison Joyce Carol Oates Salman Rushdie Wole Soyinka John Updike Mario Vargas Llosa Kurt Vonnegut Derek Walcott August Wilson

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Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Writers In Conversation With Christopher Bigsby Edward Albee Martin Amis Margaret Atwood James Baldwin J G Ballard Peter Carey Don Delillo Athol Fugard Joseph Heller John Irving Kazuo Ishiguro Doris Lessing Norman Mailer Toni Morrison Joyce Carol Oates Salman Rushdie Wole Soyinka John Updike Mario Vargas Llosa Kurt Vonnegut Derek Walcott August Wilson written by C. W. E. Bigsby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Authors categories.