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On Writing Short Stories

ISBN: 9780195122725 | 0195122720
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/11/1999

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SummaryTable of Contents
On Writing Short Stories is a unique collection of original essays by seven professional writers. It is the only text of its kind to offer writing advice from such authors, editors, and instructors as Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank Conroy, Andre Dubus, Robert Coles, Tom Bailey, and C. Michael Curtis, with a foreword by Tobias Wolff. These experts give voice--voices--to a dialogue about the art and craft of writing short stories. Respecting writers' autonomy, On Writing Short Stories does not offer a rigidly systematic apparatus for le... MORE
Forewordxi
Tobias Wolff
Prefacexiii
Contributorsxv
PART ONE On Writing Short Stories
... MOREWhat Makes a Short Story?
3(10)
Francine Prose
Reading as a Writer: The Artist as Craftsman
13(15)
Joyce Carol Oates
Character, Plot, Setting and Time, Metaphor, and Voice
28(52)
Tom Bailey
The Voice of Desire: Character
29(19)
The Why? Behind the Power of Plot: Shaping the Short Story
48(9)
The Lesser Angels of Fiction: Setting and Time
57(11)
``The Connectedness of All Living Things'': Metaphor
68(5)
The Writer's Signature: Voice
73(7)
The Writer's Workshop
80(10)
Frank Conroy
The Habit of Writing
90(7)
Andre Dubus
Why Write? Taking on the World
97(15)
Robert Coles
Publishers and Publishing
112(15)
C. Michael Curtis
PART TWO Short Stories
The String
127(5)
Guy de Maupassant
The Lady with the Pet Dog
132(13)
Anton Chekhov
Hills Like White Elephants
145(4)
Ernest Hemingway
I Stand Here Ironing
149(6)
Tillie Olsen
A Rose for Emily
155(8)
William Faulkner
The Chrysanthemums
163(8)
John Steinbeck
Everything That Rises Must Converge
171(12)
Flannery O'Connor
Sonny's Blues
183(24)
James Baldwin
The Shawl
207(4)
Cynthia Ozick
A & P
211(5)
John Updike
Cathedral
216(11)
Raymond Carver
Saint Marie
227(11)
Louise Erdrich
The Things They Carried
238(13)
Tim O'Brien
Heat
251(9)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Darkness of Love
260(28)
Robert Boswell
A Father's Story
288(16)
Andre Dubus
Lust
304(7)
Susan Minot
Bullet in the Brain
311(4)
Tobias Wolff
PART THREE Magazines, Journals, and Quarterlies Publishing Short Stories315

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