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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785743203321

Autore

Cheuse Alan

Titolo

Listening to the page [[electronic resource] ] : adventures in reading and writing / / Alan Cheuse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2001

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

809/.04

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Books and reading

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Getting Started;  or, Two Thousand Books; Part 1 | Reading; 1. Writing It Down for James: Some Thoughts on Reading Toward the Millennium; 2. Books in Flames: A View of Latin American Literature; 3. The Lost Books; 4. Hamlet in Haiti: Style in Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World; 5. Traces of Light: The Paradoxes of Narrative Painting and Pictorial Fiction; 6. Truth as Fiction: Or, the Tail of the Monstrous Peacock; 7. The Consolation of Art; Part 2 | Rereading; 8. You Can Read Wolfe Again; 9. Stories of Deep Delight; 10. Of Steinbeck and Salinas

11. The Return of James Agee12. Mario Vargas Llosa and Conversation in the Cathedral: The Question of Naturalism; 13. Where Is She Going? Where Has She Been?: Elizabeth Tallent's "No One's a Mystery" and the Poetry of Female Initiation; 14. A Wintry Saga; 15. Bernard and Juliet: Romance and Desire in Malamud's High Art; 16. Fitzgerald's Christmas Carol, or the Burden of "The Camel's Back"; 17. A Note on Landscape in All the Pretty Horses; 18. Rereading Traven; Part 3 | Writing; 19. Confessions of an Ex-Minimalist; 20. On the Contemporary; 21. Of the Making of Books; 22. Voices: A Conversation

Sommario/riassunto

When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with



Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught alongside John Gardner and Bernard Malamud at Bennington College for nearly a decade. Soon after the New Yorker story appeared, Cheuse wrote a freelance magazine piece about a new, publicly funded broadcast network called National Public Radio, and a relationship of reviewer and radio was born.<