A collectiion of short stories focuses on contemporary rural America, pitting Minnesota folk and their ways against the blandishments of the New Age

The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Bly, Carol

United States

Harpercollins

Carol Bly presents essays on how to survive life in a small country town, on what's really happening in rural America, and on other local concerns

Letters from the Country

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Perennial

Letters from the Country, one of Bly's best-known and best-loved books, is a collection of essays as fresh today as when they were originally published in Minnesota Monthly. This contemporary classic welcomes readers to the small town of Madison, Minnesota (population 2,242), a rural community struggling to place itself in the new American landscape.

Penguin

An innovative new approach to teaching and writing creative nonfiction from veteran teacher and critically acclaimed author Carol Bly. Teachers and writers everywhere are facing the limits imposed by the prevailing models of teaching: community or MFA “workshops” or, at the high-school level, “peer review.” In Beyond the Writers' WorkshopCarol Bly presents an alternative. She believes that workshopping’s tendency to engage in wry scorn and pay exaggerated attention to technical details, causes apprentice writers, consciously or unconsciously, to modify their most passionate work. Inspired by a philosophy of individuality and moral rigor, Bly combines ideas and techniques from social work, psychotherapy, and neuroscience with the traditional teaching of fresh metaphor, salient dialogue, lively pace, and analysis of other literary work in her pioneering new approach. She also includes exercises and examples in an extensive practical appendix.

Beyond the Writers' Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Letters from the Country, one of Bly's best-known and best-loved books, is a collection of essays as fresh today as when they were originally published in Minnesota Monthly. This contemporary classic welcomes readers to the small town of Madison, Minnesota (population 2,242), a rural community struggling to place itself in the new American landscape.

Letters from the Country (Minnesota)

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Univ. of Minnesota Press

A collection of short stories dealing with everyday life

Backbone: Short stories

MILKWEED EDITIONS *

Rear cover notes:  "Bad Government and Silly Literature is a passionate call to writers and readers of fiction to notice that much of our contemporary American fiction portrays characters living in an ethical and moral vacuum, and suggests ways to return ethical and moral awareness to our literature."

Bad Government and Silly Literature

del-Backbone

A book about how to write, generally, and with much attention paid to how to write the short story How to use empathic inquiry instead of conventional literary critiquing methods.

The Passionate, Accurate Story: Making Your Heart's Truth into Literature

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories

Letters from the Country

The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories

Letters from the Country

Beyond the Writers' Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction

Letters from the Country (Minnesota)

Backbone: Short stories

Bad Government and Silly Literature

del-Backbone

The Passionate, Accurate Story: Making Your Heart's Truth into Literature