An entertaining anthology of writings features both nonfiction essays and short stories that cover such topics as art critiques, poetry, country song lyrics, odes to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, tomato sandwiches, the Doors, and more. ...
This ambitious book is an answer of sorts. By exposing the rhetoric of empire, Spurr begins to loosen its hold over discourse about--and between--different cultures.
"Roth comments, in selected interviews, articles, and essays, on the origins and developments of his five most recent books and on key preoccupations, preferences, experiences, and enthusiasms in his written and unwritten worlds.
This work, covering a period of three centuries, analyzes the narratives of American women that were written whilst being held prisoner by a variety of different captors.
Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing. John Updike, known for his fiction and poetry, has assembled a motely but not unshapely collection of assorted non-fictional prose written during the last ten years.
**** New edition of the Greenwood Press original of 1979 (which is cited in BCL3), with a new introduction, chapter, and a supplementary bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Collection of essays by literary critics who are also teachers of writing and literature. Each shares Anderson's view that nonfiction prose crosses genre and discipline boundaries.
Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history.(The New York Times) ...