Literary Writing in the 21st Century : Conversations / / Anis Shivani

• Autore: Shivani Anis
• Pubblicazione: Huntsville, Texas : , : Texas Review Press, , [2017]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021; ©[2017]
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 pages)
• Disciplina: 810.9006
• Soggetto topico: Literature publishing; Contemporary, The, in literature; Authors and publishers; American literature; Authors and publishers - United States - History - 21st century; Literature publishing - United States - History - 21st century; American literature - 21st century - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Nota di contenuto: Symposium: what is good or bad about southern writing today? -- How can indie bookstores succeed in the new economy? San Antonio's Twig Book Shop as a case study -- A fabled indie press reaches maturity: what can we learn from the experience of Coffee House Press? -- How does a successful university press work? Behind the scenes with Princeton University Press director Peter Dougherty -- Symposium: have online literary journals come of age? -- How can poetry become eclectic, global, and diverse? Interview with New York Quarterly editor Raymond Hammond -- The three best books of 2013 -- Symposium: what goes into the making of an outstanding book cover? -- A manifesto against authors writing for free. ; Orhan Pamuk's original contribution to the theory of the novel: the naive and the sentimental novelist -- Symposium response: how do religious or spiritual beliefs affect my writing? -- What is the appeal of detective fiction? Dashiell Hammett's The continental op as a test case -- Symposium: who is the most important contemporary poet? -- Creative writing finally gets the satire it deserves: interview with John McNally -- Thoughts for AWP week: the glut in creative writing is the reverse side of the drought in the humanities -- The writer as confidence man: the heart versus the mind in James Magnuson's wily novel of creative writing -- New rules for writers -- Symposium: how are America's little magazines coping with technological and economic change? -- How to put together a successful poetry anthology: Ryan G. van Cleave on the challenges of summing up contemporary Chicago -- What must indie presses do today to survive and thrive? Wings Press of San Antonio shows the way -- Paul Ruffin on the role of Texas Review Press in the southern literary scene. ; The ten best books of the last decade -- Symposium: how can reviewing be made relevant for the new generation? -- Favorite poems -- Symposium: what is the present state of American poetry? -- Have feminist poets kept up with the legacy of Sylvia Plath? A reassessment fifty years later -- White House poetry reading leaked! Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander, and the secret rejection letter -- Symposium: short stories vs. novels-which is the more rewarding form and why? -- Is there a short story renaissance in America? Interview with Harper Perennial editor Calvert Morgan -- The last good 9/11 novel: interview with Teddy Wayne -- Should writing try to humanize particular groups of people? -- Symposium: what is distinctive about Arab-American writing today? -- Cormac McCarthy's The road: doing apocalypse the Southern way -- Why Salman Rushdie so richly deserves the Nobel Prize in literature -- Symposium response: is American literature too insular? -- Symposium: who is the most important contemporary fiction writer? -- We are all neoliberals now: the new genre of plastic realism in contemporary American fiction -- The Pakistani novel of class comes of age: Mohsin Hamid's How to get filthy rich in rising Asia -- The millennial generation's literary escapism toward the end of empire: Dave Eggers's A hologram for the king.
• Titolo autorizzato: Literary Writing in the 21st Century
• ISBN: 1-68003-130-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793910803321
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