From Pantyhose to Spandex: Writers on the Job Redux - Softcover

The authors of From Pantyhose to Spandex: Writers on the Job Redux take you on a tour through a single night in a taxi in Copenhagen while listening to Mahler’s Ninth, through the “Melancholy House” of a maximum-security prison and assigning juvenile delinquents as their sentence to do the sentences of an essay, through a woman’s decision to sell her eggs for five thousand dollars, through why the legendary jewelry store is called “Tiffany” rather than “Tiffany’s,” and on to a beach where forty-eight thousand pounds of lobster wait to be packed, moonlighting (a teacher’s necessity), the sleepless nights of a veterinary assistant, working as a babysitter/envelope, stuffer/carhop/Christmas ball saleswoman/gas-pumpattendant/and so much more, a day job as a bookseller, a translator, and even more ways of putting food on the table to feed the muses.

Walter Cummins is the author of more than 100 short stories. His seven collections are titled Witness; Where We Live; Local Music; The End of the Circle; The Lost Ones; Habitat: Stories of Bent Realism, and Telling Stories: Old & New. He is also the author of two novels and has published many essays and reviews. His nonfiction books include The Literary Explorer, co-written with Thomas E. Kennedy; and a study of the impact of TV on life in the U.S., Programming Our Lives: Television and American Identity, co-written with George Gordon. Thomas E. Kennedy’s forty books include novels, story and essay collections, nonfiction, anthologies, and translations (among them a book of translation of Dan Turèll). Most recentl are the four novels of his Copenhagen Quartet (2010-2014) published by Bloomsbury USA and UK: In the Company of Angels, Falling Sideways, Kerrigan in Copenhagen, and Beneath the Neon Egg. He has published hundreds of stories, novellas, essays, articles, and translations in such magazines and anthologies as the Pushcart Prize, O. Henry Awards, Best American Magazine Writing, The Best Writing on Writing, the New Yorker online, Boston Review, Epoch, New Letters, and many other periodicals. He lives in Copenhagen and is currently working on a novel, My Life with Women, Or The Consolation of Jazz.