Overview

Words Made Flesh contains six essays by the award-winning fiction writer David Jauss, each of which challenges current reigning dogmas about the craft of fiction. As in his previous collection, Alone with All that Could Happen, Jauss takes a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach to his subjects. Whereas many craft books tell writers what they should do, Words Made Flesh describes what great writers of the past and present have actually done and thus expands our understanding of the vast panorama of valid techniques and strategies available to fiction writers today.

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If I were in charge of the seating arrangements, I'd reserve a place for David Jauss in the very first row of contemporary American fiction writers. -Wally Lamb [David Jauss's] prose is at once lean and generous, sensual and intelligent, edgy without being judgmental. -Andre Dubus III Written with clarity and compassion and an ability to see several sides of life simultaneously, Black Maps is a moving, impressive, deeply rewarding collection from a very talented writer. -Lorrie Moore David Jauss's work was a huge influence on me as a young writer. -Dan Chaon Nice People is among the best story collections I've ever read. My husband, who has not read it, asked if it were better than Chekhov and I hesitated. I hesitated! -Kelly Cherry [David Jauss's] skill, insight, and artistry . . . have earned him a place among the very best American writers. His talent runs deep. -Clint McCown I have long admired David Jauss's fiction-the tough, yet gentle intelligence in it. -Richard Bausch [David Jauss's] stories have been personal landmarks for as long as I have been writing. -Bret Lott

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David Jauss is the author of four collections of short stories, most recently Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories and Nice People: New & Selected Stories II; two collections of poems, You Are Not Here and Improvising Rivers; and a previous craft book, Alone with All That Could Happen: On Writing Fiction (Revised & Expanded Edition). He has also edited or co-edited three anthologies, Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms; The Best of Crazyhorse: Thirty Years of Poetry and Prose; and Words Overflown by Stars, a collection of essays on the craft of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by the MFA in Writing faculty of Vermont College of Fine Arts. His short stories have been published in numerous magazines and reprinted in such anthologies as Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, as well as in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from the Pushcart Prize. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a James A. Michener / Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, and three fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council and one from the Minnesota State Arts Board. His collection Black Maps received the Associated Writers and Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction. For many years he taught creative writing at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock and in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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