The Eleventh Draft - Hardcover

Description: xiii, 235 pages ; 22 cm. Contents: This monkey, my back / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- View of writing fiction from the rear window / Doris Grumbach -- Smallness and invention; or, what I learned at the Iowa Writers' Workshop / Ethan Canin -- Ralston / Stuart Dybek -- Widow speaks / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Not knowing / Fred G. Leebron -- If I could be like Mike / Tom Grimes -- Mr. brain, he want a song / Barry Hannah -- Wise fool / Susan Power -- Hidden machinery / Margot Livesey -- Communal solitude / Geoffrey Wolff -- Resistance / Deborah Eisenberg. Writing life / William Lashner -- On details / Francine Prose -- Lottery ticket / Elizabeth McCracken -- Diminished creatures / Marilynne Robinson -- Why I bother / James Hynes -- Difference between being good and being a good writer / Scott Spencer -- Workshopping lucius mummius / James Alan McPherson -- Dead man / Justin Cronin -- Cowpaths / Abraham Verghese -- Eleventh draft / Chris Offutt -- Seattle, 1974: writing and place / Charles D'Ambrosio. Subjects: Authorship. Creative writing (Higher education) -- Iowa -- History -- 20th century. Iowa Writers' Workshop. Creative writing (Higher education). Iowa.