Who's Writing This?
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Who's Writing This?

Fifty-five Writers on Humor, Courage, Self-Loathing, and the Creative Process

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eBook - ePub

Who's Writing This?

Fifty-five Writers on Humor, Courage, Self-Loathing, and the Creative Process

About this book

Editor Daniel Halpern asks numerous writers to muse briefly on "the fictional persona 'behind

the scenes,'" the alter ego that accompanies creation. Fifty-five well-known authors—such as Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, William Gass, Czeslaw Milosz, James Michener, Joyce Carol Oates, and Cynthia Ozick—contributed their interpretations of this idea, along with a whimsical self-portrait.

The essays are mostly one- to two-page snapshots and vary widely as to approach. Edward Gorey cleverly anagrams his name into those of characters, such as Ogdred Weary. Susan Sontag recalls her longtime disavowal of her work and finally comes to feel that "the writer is me: not my double" and

thus she is "both Dr. Frankenstein and the monster."

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Information

Publisher
Ecco
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780061782220
eBook ISBN
9780061892066
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Art General
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. Why Who?—A Preface
  6. Borges and I
  7. Diane Ackerman and I
  8. ALBEE
  9. Borges and I10
  10. Me, She, and It
  11. R(&I)
  12. Borges and I
  13. Blount, Borges, and I
  14. Bowles and It
  15. The One Who Writes
  16. There’s a Black Man Imprisoned in Me
  17. Who Is the Reader in That Ring of Light?
  18. Butler and I
  19. Me and Conroy
  20. Keeping Time
  21. The J.R. Fowles Club
  22. Path
  23. Pierre Menard and Me
  24. The Girl in the Basement
  25. A Penchant for Pseudonyms
  26. The Fertile “We” of One Chaste “I”
  27. Squaw Gulch
  28. Hawkes and Hawkes
  29. Helprin and I
  30. Labrador Retriever Wishes He Could Tell All
  31. a/k/a and I
  32. Me and Ed
  33. Diane Johnson and I
  34. Disappearing
  35. Just and unJust
  36. Klíma and I
  37. My Appendage
  38. What Elmore Leonard Does
  39. On My Name
  40. The Complaint
  41. Mayle and I
  42. Michaels Writing
  43. Michener and I
  44. Arthur Miller
  45. My Double
  46. My Persona and Me
  47. My Better Half
  48. “JCO” and I
  49. Who Is Writing This
  50. The Break
  51. Smokescreen
  52. She and I…and Someone Else
  53. The Interlocutor
  54. We Two
  55. Mitty and Me
  56. Borges, JCO, You, and Me
  57. Singleness
  58. Me and My Book
  59. Young Him and Me
  60. Updike and I
  61. The I of Writing
  62. About the Editor
  63. Credits
  64. Copyright
  65. About the Publisher