They Went: The Art and Craft of Travel Writing (The Writer's Craft)

Six renowned travel writers describe the creative process involved in this popular form of narrative, drawing on their own works to reveal how to create a sense of place

IAN FRAZIER

Andrea Lee

Calvin Trillin

Mark Salzman

Vivian Gornick

Tobias Schneebaum

Literature & Fiction

Houghton/Mifflin

The Romance of American Communism [hardcover] Vivian Gornick [Mar 09, 1978]

The Romance of American Communism

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Basic Books

The End of The Novel of Love

Beacon Press

Approaching Eye Level

The acclaimed memoirist's classic exploration of her relationship with her mother. "A fine, unflinchingly honest book." -Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book Review

Fierce Attachments : A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

FIERCE ATTACHMENTS: A MEMOIR

History

Americas

Virago Press Ltd.

In this book of new and collected critical essays, Vivian Gornick turns the searching intelligence and honesty of insight that mark her memoirs on the work - and the lives - of writers she admires, among them Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Christina Stead, and George Meredith. In doing so, she examines a century of novels of love-in-the-Western-world and comes to see that, for most writers, it is the drama of our angry and frightened selves in the presence of love that is our modern preoccupation.

End of the Novel of Love, The

Essays & Correspondence

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love. All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks - and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. This book, which grew out of 15 years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.

Situation and the Story, The

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

Verso

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