| Description |
viii, 379 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 375-377. |
| Contents |
A house and a household / David Haward Bain -- Writer and region / Wendell Berry -- Freud: the perfection that destroys / Harold Bloom -- Being there / Anatole Broyard -- American theater in process: crisis or change? / Robert Brustein -- The pleasures of repitition (Revisiting Whitman) / Lawrence Buell -- The plane on South Mountain / John Elder -- Death of a hornet / Robert Finch -- Indy / Paul Fussell -- Goodness knows nothing of beauty: on the distance between morality and art / William H. Gass -- My face / Gail Godwin -- Freudian slip / Stephen Jay Gould -- Let's say you wrote badly this morning / David Huddle -- Downtown with Horatio Alger / Marcus Klein -- Faith and loving in Las Vegas / Nancy Mairs -- The brain that hears the music / Paul Mariani -- Dancing with nature / Don Mitchell -- Beginnings / Joyce Carol Oates. |
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How to tell a true war story / Tim O'Brien -- On permission to write / Cynthia Ozick -- The poetry of inheritance / Robert Pak -- A cosy cosmology / Heinz R. Pagels -- Town life / Jay Parini -- Penelope - the sequel: some uses of mythology in contemporary poetry / Linda Pastan -- War on the farm / Noel Perrin -- Faith of the father / Sam Pickering -- Why there are box scores / Ron Powers -- West of Boston: Robert Frost / William H. Pritchard -- Plots and manipulations: a writer reads the second book of Samuel / Lore Segal -- Reflections on the Constitution / Gore Vidal -- Telling time / Nancy Willard -- Heavt breathing / Hilma Wolitzer -- Bibliography of recent work. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 20th century.
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| Indexed Term |
Essays in English American writers, 1945- - Texts |
| Added Author |
Pack, Robert, 1929-2023
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Parini, Jay.
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Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College.
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| ISBN |
0874514762 alkaline paper |
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9780874514766 alkaline paper |
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0874514754 paperback |
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9780874514759 paperback |
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