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Author: Jim Schumoch
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Imprint: Black Heron Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 14.40cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.516kg
ISBN: 9780930773519
ISBN 10: 0930773519
Pages: 285
Publication Date: 01 January 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Schumock has been interviewing award-winning authors on his Portland, Oregon, radio show for seven years and has now compiled a collection of 19 lively and revealing conversations. By maintaining a question-and-answer format, Schumock preserves each writer's distinct voice, and what a distinguished and outspoken cast he has assembled. Interviewees include William Kennedy, Carol Shields, Robert Stone, Lorrie Moore, Tobias Wolff, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Philip Levine. The discussions veer from the strictly literary to the magnetically personal, the aesthetic to the anecdotal, a swing that emphasizes the intrinsic role that writing plays in both the inner and the outer lives of a writer. Schumock asks intelligent and penetrating questions as he traces the evolution of each writer's current book as well as the course of the writer's career, and his guests respond at length, displaying their innate talent for storytelling, profound involvement with literature, and the curious mesh of the intentional and the unexpected that shapes every work of art. -- Donna Seaman, Booklist, November 15, 1998
"""Schumock has been interviewing award-winning authors on his Portland, Oregon, radio show for seven years and has now compiled a collection of 19 lively and revealing conversations. By maintaining a question-and-answer format, Schumock preserves each writer's distinct voice, and what a distinguished and outspoken cast he has assembled. Interviewees include William Kennedy, Carol Shields, Robert Stone, Lorrie Moore, Tobias Wolff, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Philip Levine. The discussions veer from the strictly literary to the magnetically personal, the aesthetic to the anecdotal, a swing that emphasizes the intrinsic role that writing plays in both the inner and the outer lives of a writer. Schumock asks intelligent and penetrating questions as he traces the evolution of each writer's current book as well as the course of the writer's career, and his guests respond at length, displaying their innate talent for storytelling, profound involvement with literature, and the curious mesh of the intentional and the unexpected that shapes every work of art."" -- Donna Seaman, Booklist, November 15, 1998"
