Why I Like This Story
by Jackson R. Bryer (Editor, Contribution by)A. R. Gurney (Contribution by)Alan Cheuse (Contribution by)Alice McDermott (Contribution by)Andre Dubus (Contribution by)Andrea Barrett (Contribution by)Ann Beattie (Contribution by)Beverly Lowry (Contribution by)Clarence Major (Contribution by)Diana Wagman (Contribution by)Doris Betts (Contribution by)Doris Grumbach (Contribution by)E. Annie Proulx (Contribution by)Edmund Keeley (Contribution by)Edward Kelsey Moore (Contribution by)Elizabeth Spencer (Contribution by)Ellen Douglas (Contribution by)Elliot Ackerman (Contribution by)Frederick Busch (Contribution by)George Garrett (Contribution by)Herbert Gold (Contribution by)Howard Norman (Contribution by)Jack Greer (Contribution by)Jane Hamilton (Contribution by)Jill McCorkle (Contribution by)Joan Silber (Contribution by)Joanna Scott (Contribution by)Joyce Kornblatt (Contribution by)Julia Alvarez (Contribution by)Julia Glass (Contribution by)Kao Kalia Yang (Contribution by)Kate Christensen (Contribution by)Lee K. Abbott (Contribution by)Leslie Pietrzyk (Contribution by)Mako Yoshikawa (Contribution by)Mary Kay Zuravleff (Contribution by)Mary Lee Settle (Contribution by)Maud Casey (Contribution by)Molly Giles (Contribution by)Nicholas Delbanco (Contribution by)Olga Grushin (Contribution by)Pamela Erens (Contribution by)R. H. W. Dillard (Contribution by)Richard Bausch (Contribution by)Rilla Askew (Contribution by)Rion Amilcar Scott (Contribution by)Sabina Murray (Contribution by)Susan Coll (Contribution by)William H. Gass (Contribution by)
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Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories selected.
On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values.
Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger,Malamud, and Welty; but the book also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass, and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P. Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected.
Among the contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa.
Editor Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.
On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values.
Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger,Malamud, and Welty; but the book also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass, and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P. Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected.
Among the contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa.
Editor Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.
| ISBN-13 | 9781787445352 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1787445356 |
| Format | - |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 364 pages |
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| Published On | 2019-06-17 |
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