Conversations with Texas Writers

Frances Leonard

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: University of Texas Press, 2005

0292706413 / 9780292706415

Serie: Buch 5 von 20 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture

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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 Relaci n 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. …

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Titel
Conversations with Texas Writers
Autor
Frances Leonard
Verlag
University of Texas Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
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Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0292706413
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9780292706415
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Buch 5 von 20: Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture

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